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Worcester Academy 
BULLETIN 




DECEMBER, 1918 



Published four times a year, in March, May, June, and December, 
by Worcester Academy, Worcester, Mass. 

Entered as second-class matter Dec. 5, 1911 at the Post Office in 
Worcester, Mass., under Act of July 16, 1804. 




Samuel F. Holmes 



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. Worcester Academy Bulletin 

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VOL. VIII DECEMBER, 1918 NO. 1 

EDITORIAL 

This issue of the Bulletin is emphatically a war number. The material 

at hand concerning alumni in military service has accumulated to such an 

extent that, in its unquestionable claim to priority, it has compelled the 

omission of much other matter that properly has sought a place. Among 

this is further historical matter on the school; the first of a series of sketches 

on former teachers; letters from boys overseas; alumni notes, not military; 

and facts in the current life of the school. These must be relegated to the 

next issue, which will follow close on the heels of this, by the end of April 

at the latest. 

* * * 

Since the last issue of the Bulletin was sent out in September the 
apparent end of the war has come, and the Worcester Academy world, 
in common with everything about it, is beginning to readjust itself to the 
new conditions. We have felt, and felt keenly, the effects of the giant 
struggle, and yet we, like our sister academies, have been less perturbed 
than colleges and many other institutions. As the large majority of our 
pupils, actual and prospective, were below the age accepted for military 
service, and as the sending of boys to private schools was favored by gen- 
eral financial prosperity, our registration has been but moderately affected. 
While great losses and serious inconveniences have been suffered by the 
withdrawal of teachers to enter service, yet on the whole we have fared 
better in this respect than many similar schools. Our schedules of 
study have gone on about the same, certain changes in view the early 
part of the present fall to meet the needs of older boys preparing for mid- 
year entrance to S. A. T. C. and for speciahzed forms of service having 
been forestalled by the armistice before they were really formulated. 
Military drill has shared with regular physical work the time and energy 
of the school body. Interschool athletic schedules have indeed been 
thrown into confusion, particularly in track, where most of the great 
meets in which we have long been associated prominently have been 
temporarily discontinued. But the bursting energies of schoolboy life 
have found abundant opportunity for outlet; the days on the campus 
have teemed with activities. More than all, a deeper sense of the real 



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meanings of life and oC personal and civic responsibility has been engendered 
by the stirring events that have crowded upon each other, driven home 
by earnest and well-measured words of interpretation and comment 
from chapel desk and teachers' chair. And now, with hardly a moment in 
which to scan the disturbed horizons, the school, with satisfaction in its 
l^ast, with determination for the present, and with faith in the future, 
seeks to enlist itself in the ranks of the battalions that are to save the 
country to the cherished ideals of its founders. 



Few features of the fall have touched the hearts of the boys more closely 
than the casual visits of old fellows fresh from service, bringing their 
personal word of experience, and showing that the stars on the service 
flags floating in The Megaron stand each for a W. A. boy. Perhaps sur- 
passing these in dramatic appeal has been the standing at attention in 
chapel as a silent tribute to the memory of an old boy of the school whose 
death in service has just been announced. Happily these occasions are 
becoming less frequent, but, counting from the very beginning of the 
war, the number has increased to twenty-seven. This is out of a total in 
service of some 700, a very large percentage of fatalities it seems. Very 
likely the proportion would be decreased if full data at hand allowed the 
inclusion of every name that belongs in the grand total of those in service. 
Figures are not available from which to compute the proportion of the 
alumni who have taken part in the war, but it is probable that nearly 
one-half of all former students for the past twenty years, whether married 
or single, whether their stay at the school was short or long, have been 
enrolled; certainly more than one-third. This is a good record. It is 
a record, especially when we consider the large number who have proved 
themselves competent to lead, that justifies the existence of the private 
school of America. It is a record that will long adorn the history of 
Worcester Academy. 



The Koll of Honor, on j^age 20, enshrines the twenty-seven whose fate 
it has been to make the supreme sacrifice. The list runs from Michelson 
of '97, leaving his consulate to become the first victim while inspecting 
the England prison cam]:)s in Germany, to Vincent Marshall, carrying to 
his western home his diploma last June, and to young Clifford Park, 
leaving his class to play a man's part. In it the graduate and non-grad- 
uate stand in equal honor. They who won laurels in scholarship and 
they who gained recognition in athletics devoted alike their talents. 
The school leaders, the monitors, appear in Carl Dudley and Elston Day. 



WORCESTER ACADEMY BULLETIN 5 

Dexter Hall and the Dormer floor are both there. Charlie Bull and 
Clifford Stevens were ours for the full four years. There are the com- 
missioned officer and the private; those who were stricken by disease amid 
the drudgery of the training camp, and those who received the stamp of 
glory on the front line and in No Man's Land; those who rest in the fami- 
liar and peaceful cemetery at home, and those who lie beneath the crosses 
of Flanders and Champagne. Most belonged still to the home circle of 
their parents; but some leave in loneliness the young wife and the bride, 
and the children who can hardly carry on in their memories the father 
who has gone. All belong to their country; all belong to a world made 
better by their work; and all belong to us. Their courage and their sac- 
rifice will never be forgotten. It remains however for the school and 
their fellows to provide some proper and enduring memorial that the 
individual names of this Roll may forever be held in honor and in hal- 
lowed memory among us. 

* * * 

It seems invidious to select for special mention any from the long 
list of those who return. There are those among them who, like Luke 
Doyle, '06, and Walter Wheeler, '14, have won the coveted distinction 
of the Croix de Guerre. There are others who have been cited for dis- 
tinguished bravery, either individually or with their unit. Others will be 
envied in that Chateau Thierry, St. Mihiel, and the Argonne, names 
that have become common in the correspondence of the Bulletin, will 
be to them familiar places. But all, whether they found their place in 
field, in camp, or in laboratory, whether they labored by land, by sea, or 
in air, gave all that they had, and nothing more can be asked. 

Still there are a few from the earlier classes, men for the most part 
outside the pale of required service, who were peculiarly fitted for certain 
lines of work, and whom fortunately the emergency found. The class of 
'87, famous already in many ways, gave Dr. Edwin G. Dexter, a leader 
in Red Cross work in France, and now in charge of the Society's expedi- 
tion to Montenegro. Pres. John Hope, '90, supervisor in Y. M. C. A. 
work among the colored troops in France, and referee in many complicated 
problems that concern the negroes; Hubert M. Sedgwick, '90, a Secretary 
of the Athletic Division of the Navy Training Camp Commission; Dr. 
Joseph E. Raycroft, of the Princeton College Gymnasium, who has served 
on the War Department Commission on Training Camp Activities; Edwin 
P. Grosvenor, '93, leaving a large law practice in New York City to join 
the Intelligence Division in Washington; Pres. Ernest M. Hopkins of 
Dartmouth, serving as special Assistant Secretary of War, and there 
handling most important and difficult work in such a way as to be 



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characterized by Sec. Baker as "qualified almost without equal;" these 

and scores of others constitute a body of men of which any school may 

well feel proud. 

* * * 

On its side what has the school done for its sons in service? How did 
it show them that it was behind them with all its mind and strength; 
that it did not forget them? The reply that can be made seems regretfully 
unsatisfactory; the items below almost too meager and inadequate to 
enumerate. 

It has been a pleasure to forward the honorable records made here by 
candidates for training camps and preferred lines of service. We suspect 
a considerable total of cheery letters have been sent out by Dr. Aber- 
crombie, Mr. Holmes, and others of the faculty. May we say here that 
the Bulletin on its part regrets that it has been an impossibility to send 
a reply to many a word of greeting or of information that should have 
received one. The thought and effort of the Thimble Club, made up of the 
ladies of the Faculty, to send a box last spring to all W. A. boys in France, 
was thwarted by the prohibition of the postal authorities just as the 
things were being packed, to the great chagrin of the club. The Bui-letin 
has spent much effort in collecting and publishing war news, and we have 
reason to feel that these have been of considerable interest, as numerous 
words of appreciation have come to us, many from overseas. The school 
has daily spoken the message the soldier would send to his younger 
brothers in school by the great service flag on the campus, by the class 
banners of red and gold in The Megaron, and by the prevailing topics 
of conversation. Yet all these count but little. Still they are the bits 
that opportunity placed before us, leaving us compelled to find solace in 
the hope that the lessons taught in past years to the old boys have been 
real factors in equipping them for the great task they have just accom- 
plished so splendidly. Perhaps the near future will find place for a 
memorial service, for a great reunion of Academy men who have been 
in the war, and for a special war service number of the Bulletin, as 
well as provide some enduring memorial as suggested above. Any sug- 
gestions as to the financing of this memorial number, which should be 
worthy and complete, will be gratefully received by the Bulletin. 



This issue of the Bulletin properly l^egins with the photograph of Mr. 
Holmes on the frontispiece. Mr. Holmes' connection with the school 
begins in a most interesting way even before he came to the Academy as an 
instructor. In the davs when the school was located at Lincoln 



WORCESTER ACADEMY BULLETIN 7 

Square, during the principalship of Dr. W. C. Poland, the parents of Mr. 
Hohnes' mother, Mr. and Mrs. Howe of Worcester, rented from Doctor 
Poland a portion of the Academy building that was not then needed by 
the school, and used it as their residence. Mr. Holmes' mother herself, 
who had previously attended the Oread Institute, became a pupil at the 
Academy, and also had charge of some of the younger pupils. Doctor 
Poland moreover boarded for a time with Mr. Howe. 

Mrs. Holmes, too, has a sort of indirect connection with the earlier 
school, in that Judge John D. Smith, the fifteenth principal of the Academy, 
had Mrs. Holmes' father, Enoch C. Adams, as his pupil in Litchfield, Me. 



There has been no disturbing jolt in passing from the old year to the new, 
from the former administration to the present. Any such questionable 
move was not to be expected when it was remembered that the principal's 
chair was to be filled by one who had acquired his experience as a teacher 
mainly under Doctor Abercrombie, and who had felt the strength of the 
principles under the working of which the school had attained vitality and 
power. But Mr. Holmes had also caught his predecessor's zeal for advance 
and of course the fall was bound to show some evidences of this. And so, 
whatever greater modifications of school policy the trustees and the admin- 
istration may jointly have in contemplation, they await the ripeness of 
time, and the transition is being made easily and smoothly. 

Several little changes that the familiar eye would note are mentioned in 
Topics of the Term. Were anything to be singled out for special mention 
here, it perhaps might be the reorganization of the executive work. The 
duties that fell to Mr. Towle have been redistributed. Matters of permis- 
sions and business details are performed by Mr. Dodd, who has given up 
his teaching, and who is called Executive Officer. The discipline the 
principal shares with Mr. Beazley. Mr. George D. Church returns to the 
Academy from his Abbott School to take charge of the enrollment of new 
pupils, having the title of Registrar. The headship of the Dining Room is 
shared by two or three men in alternation. To accomodate these officers, 
and to afford better facilities for the faculty, the recitation room to the 
right of the south entrance of Walker Hall has been utilized, and the old 
offices have been further subdivided. In a way these offices, with their 
neat signs directing boys and strangers, are concrete indications of a pur- 
pose to make the school more efficient in doing its work, and so may fairly 
be considered emblematic of the purpose and hope of the school. In this 
purpose are co-operating trustees, faculty, and boys, and we dare say, the 
alumni body also, and so all may share alike in the bright promise of the 
future. 



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On September 18 the eighty-fifth year of the Academy opened. In 
June the trustees had announced a necessary increase in rate. The 
summer months had been days of anxiety and uncertainty for the nation, 
for the home, and for the school. And yet opening day found every room 
in Dexter and Davis occupied. This was true, even though a large group 
of boys of eighteen and nineteen had been called to service. This condition 
was indeed rewarding to Mr. Holmes, as he looked forward to his first year 
of administration. 

Early in the fall term a census of the school was taken at the request of 
the registrar. Our readers, the majority of whom are old boys of the 
Academy, will be gratified to know a fact that this showed. Forty-five of 
the pupils acknowledged that their decision to attend Worcester was the 
result of a conversation by them or by their parents with some old Academy 
boy. The names of these former students who have so effectively served 
their school will be printed in the alumni cohmrns. 

Another noteworthy fact is that the registration for the winter term 
this year equals if not exceeds that of the fall term, over twenty new 
pupils having been enrolled to take the place of those removed. A few of 
these were returning students who had withdrawn in September to enter in 
S. A. T. C. Among the new entries are several due to the eflScient and 
aggressive efforts of the new registrar, IVIr. Church. 

The new term has of course brought its peculiar problems and anxieties. 
It had been impossible to fill an important vacancy in the faculty, caused 
by the operation of the draft, when school opened, and not until the term 
was well under way was a competent man secured. The epidemic of in- 
fluenza began its inroads in September, and invaded the ranks of the pupils 
and faculty alike. Rigorous measures were at once adopted, but at one 
time between tliirty and forty boys were ill with the disease or showed 
suspicious symptoms. The accomodations of the Infirmary were supple- 
mented by the upper floor of Walker Hall, no longer used as a dormitory, 
extra nurses were secured, and a moderate quarantine enforced. This 
vigorous treatment soon brought the epidemic under control, and only one 
death resulted, that of Frank C. Hanson, of Hartford, Conn., a member of 
the second-year class. It was inevitable that the regular work of the school 
should be retarded by this sickness. The good sense of the student body in 
preserving its poise and coolness was a helpful factor in the situation. The 
athletic activities of the fall were greatly hampered during the epidemic, 
but they resumed later a semblance of their normal character. 

* * * 

The question as to the provision which the school should make for mili- 
tary drill became an issue during the correspondence with parents in the 



WORCESTER ACADEMY BULLETIN 9 

summer. It was impossible to learn just what the Government wanted. 
At one time it seemed that it might be the policy to organize companies of 
the S. A. T. C. in preparatory schools as well as in colleges, and the Acad- 
emy held itself in readiness to do its part. All was in doubt when the term 
opened. Accordingly the scheme that had been in force during the spring 
term was followed in the main. The boys were given three hours of train- 
ing each week under the direction of Major Warren of Worcester, and all 
were required to provide themselves a uniform. As the term advanced it 
became evident that branches of the S. A. T. C. would not be organized in 
secondary schools, but the War Department's attitude was favorable to 
the establishment of junior branches of the R. 0. T. C. An inspector 
visited as, and we understand that he carried away favorable impressions 
of our adaptedness for this work. We decided finally, however, not to 
apply at present to be designated as the location of such a group. 

In regard to the general problem it is felt that military training and reg- 
ular routines of study do not go well side by side. The testimony of 
educational institutions the past fall has been practically unanimous to this 
effect. The position of the Academy then is one of waiting. The number 
of hours per week devoted to drill has been reduced to two, thus taking the 
place of only a part of the regular physical work. If the Government sees 
fit to ask secondary schools to co-operate with it in providing military 
training, the school stands ready to do so. If it does not make such a re- 
quest, the school will be very content to continue its former system of 

physical work. 

* * * 

One feature of the work in seeking information concerning Academy 
boys in service has been getting in touch again with many old pupils 
from whom we had not heard in many years. Some weeks ago a num- 
ber of letters were sent out to boys belonging to classes from about 1905 on 
who had not been on our alumni files, the only address available in many 
cases being the home address at the time of their attendance. Nearly two 
hundred responses to these letters have come, nearly all of them disclosing 
an additional Academy man in service. It is with satisfaction that the 
Bulletin introduces these names once more to the Academy circles, and 
trusts that the acquaintanceship will prove lasting. The work of locating 
the old pupils is to be prosecuted vigorously this year, in the expectation 
of preparing a card catalogue of all former pupils which shall be reason- 
ably complete. 

* * * 

The series of articles by Dr. Ward on the principals of the Academy 
having been completed, it now seems most appropriate to turn to the 



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former members of the faculty who have been prominent in the hfe of the 
school. Accordingly we begin such a series of sketches in the next number 
with that of Mr. Shepardson, whose stay at the school from 1883 to 1896 
covered a very important period in the development of the school, and 
whose character and attainment endeared him so greatly to the thirteen 
generations of boys who were under him. This sketch will be followed in 
successive issues by those of other old teachers, taking first naturally those 
of longest service in the school. We feel sure that our readers will be 
happy to meet in this way their old instructors and friends. 

* * * 

Several years ago it was the fortunate privilege of the Bulletin to 
print an article interpretative of Japanese thought from the pen of Rev. 
Frank A. Lombard, '92, whose career in educational work in Japan has been 
so notable. Not only as Dean of the Doshisha College, an institution 
under American auspices at Kyoto, has he done much to make the Japanese 
youth acquainted with American ideas, but his service there was so con- 
spicuous that he has for some time been called also by the Japanese author- 
ities themselves to a professorship in English Literature in the Imperial 
University. He is now spending a Sabbatical year at home, and has had 
the kindness to prepare for us an article on "Japan and the World War." 
It is a word from a man who thoroughly understands the Japanese point 

of view. 

* * * 

The Bulletin is happy to bring to its readers the desk calendar to be 
found inserted in this issue, which is furnished us by the school registrar, 
Mr. George D. Church. The "considerations" it contains are worthy of 
thought and of being passed along. Incidently it may be proper to express 
here the happiness brought by the many letters that have come to the school 
in pleasant acknowledgement of the greeting sent out at New Year's. 

A Word from Mr. Holmes 

"I found Rome a city of brick, I left it a city of marble." So spake 
Caesar Augustus, contemplating his labors. Over this hill-top where sits 
our school city thirty-six years have passed while the thought and toil and 
prayer of a great builder have wrought incessantly to people the school 
republic with the "breed of noble bloods" and to lift above it that clear, 
shining standard of honorable achievement which is the Worcester ideal. 
Turning from his long day's task to rest from his labors. Doctor Aber- 
crombie can say in words sanctified by his accomphshments : "I was a 
builder; after me come others." 



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What is the call to us, the other builders, who take up his task and step 
with unaccustomed feet to the places of decision? First of all to keep for- 
ever clear in our vision the great watchword of the school, "Achieve the 
honorable. " Not alone by the unwearying patience with which we sound 
those words in boyish ears, as the school upon the hill moves from day to 
day along its course, but also l3y the tribute with which we salute that 
greater company, the sons of the school outside, who, wherever men under- 
take great tasks, have become and are daily becoming the honorable 
achievers of their generation, must we cherish and exalt our glorious motto. 
It is for the Alumni standing shoulders together to present to a world 
searching for leadership the sight of men upright in private life, generous 
in public service, stalwart against the false philosophies that assault our 
institutions, broadminded and hopeful in the face of social and economic 
problems that multiply like the Hydra's heads. Let us have it said of 
Worcester men that there is a something, a sensitiveness to the call of duty, 
a rallying to good causes in distress, a refusal to honor aught but the honor- 
able, an energy of righteousness that cheers the defenders of ordered civil- 
ization and dismays the legions of anarchy, a something born of the spirit, 
so bright, so unquenchable, so infectious that it characterizes us and our 
school and enlists men to labor by our side. 

And then what of the school? What shall Worcester men do for her? 
Has she any needs? Do the passing years leave her unchanged? Not so. 
Needs she has in plenty : physical needs, enlargements and repairs, but most 
insistent of all a great spiritual need, which can be satisfied only with 
spiritual offerings. She needs the constant loyalty and the interest of all 
her sons. She needs this tribute of gratitude from Alumni bestowed by 
word, by letter, by visit, upon those who sit in her halls to teach and chrect; 
she needs it manifested in the activity of old boys who shall direct an ever 
lengthening column of the best youth in America to her gates. Her con- 
tinuing cry is for boys, boys, boys, the promising boys, the ambitious boys, 
the fine-spirited boys, the best boys of the land, a vast company of young 
manhood marching to her shrine, not to be sacrificed, but to be ennobled 
and enriched and sent out to the world to honor the old school and to bless 
mankind. 

Let us all, then, reaching forth into a future enlarged by vision and faith 
established securely by loyal response to Worcester's call, make these words 
our own : — 

"Still onward and upward pursue thy fair march, 

Like an army with banners unfurled. 

While God bends above thee his covenant arch 

And before thee lies waiting the world. " 



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JAPAN AND THE WORLD WAR 

The Pacific Ocean is sure to become increasinp;ly important in the history 
of the world; and it is necessary that we of the United States should come 
to understand more perfectly our neighbors in the Orient. In particular 
it is now necessary that we understand Japan's relation to the world war 
and her present attitude. 

Among the various forms of Prussian propaganda in the United States 
and throughout the world none has been more insidious than that which 
cast suspicion upon Japan and filled our minds with doubt concerning 
her friendshi]:) and the part she was likely to play in any movement of the 
nations. This propaganda, taking advantage of certain well-known 
facts, and safely presuming upon our ignorance of vital elements in Japa- 
nese character, created such a feeling against Japan that Germany was 
confident of a clash upon the Pacific which would ultimately play 
into her hands and give her supremacy over the United States. 

The world stage was set with a care that took account of everything 
except the spiritual elements of human nature; and Germany began 
the war. 

Japan entered the war out of respect for a piece of paper: her treaty 
alliance with Great Britain. She had not the slightest personal cause 
for hostility. Germany at first regarded her attitude as merely formal, 
the result of compelling circumstances. She expected to find in Japan 
a friend, or at least one who, acting in accord with Prussian principles, 
could not be loyal in her alliance with Great Britain. In this, Germany 
believed her own propaganda. 

Japan admired Germany and the German people, their eflficiency and 
Kultur; Prussian influence was strong in the Japanese army and in all 
the many spheres of activity controlled by her men of university training; 
her government was largely bureaucratic; and her ambition for territorial 
expansion apparently natural. These were the facts upon which Germany 
based her propaganda and her faith. It was to be expected that Japan 
would find some way in which to break from her alliance and grasp the 
opportunity for her own advancement in the Pacific. This Germany 
expected; and even to us, unconsciously under the influence of her pro- 
paganda, Japan in democratic alliance appeared strangely incongruous, 
so that we hardly believed the sincerity of her position or had faith in her 
future loyalty. 

Little by little the extent of German intrigue in arousing bad blood 
became apparent : and the crude suspicions vanished, leaving only a vague, 
questioning doubt which still lingers among us: an insidious danger to 
the very cause of international brotherhood for which we stand. 

This lingering doubt is dispelled by any consideration of Japan which 
gives due importance to her sense of honor, her sagacity in political leader- 
ship, her growing democracy, and the spirit of devotion among her people, 
regardless of rank. In so brief an article it is obviously impossible to 
go into details; but it may safely be said that Japan has fully established 



WORCESTER ACADEMY BULLETIN 13 

her loyalty to the cause of the Allies in the present war, and fully satisfied 
our government of the honorable nature of her international dealings. 
This leaves us to consider the position in which Japan finds herself to-day, 
caught in the folds of an accellerated evolution. 

The world war soon developed into a struggle between conflicting 
ideas and ideals. The return of peace, with victory for the allied armies, 
marks a great advance toward the firm establishment of those ideas 
and ideals which make for human brotherhood and the development of 
spiritual manhood ; Init the end is not yet. The struggle must go on. The 
ultimate victory can be obtained only progressively; not, we may reason- 
ably hope, through further strife and bloodshed, but through the no 
less strenuous and severe endeavor of social evolution. Within the last 
five years a world lias been born anew; the next twenty-five years, the years 
of its youth and adolescence, are sure to be filled with rapid changes. Many 
things which we shall regret are sure to occur; many mistakes are sure 
to be made; but of the character of the development no man can doubt. 

Our eyes are upon Europe, and we watch with eager gaze the rapid, 
turbulent changes that make for democratization there; but the results 
of the war in Europe will be found insignificant in comparison with its 
results in Asia. The outcome of this struggle changes by two thousand 
years the course of Oriental evolution. A victory of brute force, of irre- 
sponsible self-will, would have compelled us of the United States to adopt 
a policy of self-defense deadening to our higher spiritual aspirations and 
our noblest national instinct. Much more would it of necessity have 
turned the development of the New Orient into channels of selfish ma- 
terialism, and have put back by centuries the growth of its higher life. 
But Germany has been conquered. The ideals for which she stood have 
been found wanting; and the pathway of evolution now lies open for 
spiritual factors. The meek shall inherit the earth. 

The subjects of evolutionary change, however, are often unconscious 
of that change, sometimes opposed to it; and Japan is largely uncon- 
scious of the great movement of which she has become a part. Her 
leaders, her scholars and her statesmen, are not unconscious. They are 
keenly awake to the present trend and aware of the inevitable outcome. 
Some heartily rejoice; others bitterly grieve; but none will for a moment 
seek to impede the movement whereby Japan keeps an honored place 
among the onward-marching nations of the world. The power to foresee 
the inevitable and the tact to retain the initiative in entering upon the 
inevitable are characteristics of Japanese statesmen. Thus a popular 
movement in Japan, after reaching a certain point, is sure to become a 
movement under the leadership of those in government authority, and to 
result in an evolutionary advance rather than a revolutionary overthrow. 
This fact, taken together with the fact that self-abnegation for the good 
of the country as a whole is the highest duty binding upon all Japanese 
alike, makes it certain that whether gladly or not the leaders of Japan 
will conduct their nation in harmony with the inevitable trend of modern 
evolution. 

Nor is this democratization opposed to the instinct of the Japanese 
people. They are in many ways exceedingly democratic; and true democ- 
racy is not limited to any specific form of government. In the early 



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years of Japan's modern life, she was an ardent admirer of the United 
States. During the years in which she found herself compelled to strug- 
gle for national standing, she became impressed with our apparent ma- 
terialism and was led to question the sincerity of some of our more ideal 
utterances, especially in view of the fact that we persisted in an invidious 
racial discrimination in the laws governing the admission of foreigners 
to our shores. Economic pressure forced Japan to place great emphasis 
upon things material and to worship efficiency, though by nature she was 
idealistic and a worshipper of the heroic. 

The last two years have brought to Japan a new revelation of the 
United States, even as they have brought such a revelation to ourselves. 
She is rapidly regaining her old faith in us as a people of just purpose 
and of spiritual ideals, among whom there is something more powerful 
than the almighty dollar. She is ciuick to estimate values, and she is 
learning the power of the spiritual, even in the modern world where 
selfish materialism had seemed to reign. Her future relations with the 
United States depend largely upon us. It is ours to be her trusting, 
trusted friend, co-operating in her hard task of the spiritual democrati- 
zation of the Orient. 

Frank A. Lombard^ '92 

CLIFTON A. TOWLE, 1903=1918 

Mr. Towle resigned his position on the Academy faculty late in Septem- 
ber to accept a call to the Reclamation Service of the U. S. Sanitary 
Corps. The position involved rank as First Lieutenant, but before all 
the details incident to the formal granting of the commission were com- 
pleted, the armistice was signed. He continued the same line of 
work, however, as a civilian official, being appointed at once in the civil 
service a Curative Workshop Instructor of the Medical Department at 
Large of the Army, and stationed at the Walter Reed Hospital at Wash- 
ington, D. C. At the first this work was combined with that of selecting 
men to engage in the mental and vocational training of wounded soldiers. 

In regard to his Washington work he writes: "I am helping with the 
administrative end and the office work of our Division of Physical Recon- 
struction at the hospital. I am interviewing convalescent soldiers who 
enroll with us or who are sent l^y the surgeons, and assigning courses, etc. 
I get a chance to hear many an interesting tale, and to give many words 
of cheer. All are men who have lost an arm, leg, or worse. Some crippled 
for life, many down-hearted. A chance certainly for good works. " 

After several weeks in Washington he was transferred to \'. S. Hospital 
No. 10 at Parker Hill, Boston, for similar service. His address is 104 
Hemenway St., Boston. Very recently a lieutenant's commission has been 
finally granted him. Mrs. Towle and the two children, Alice and Harriet, 
six and three years old respectively, are making their home for the present 
with Mrs. Towle's parents at Laconia, N. H. 




Clifton A. Towle, 1903-1918 



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Mr. Towle came to the school in the Fall of 1903, a few days after the 
opening of the school year, to fill a vacancy in the science department. 
He brought to his new position a rich experience. Born in the town of 
Winthrop, Me., and early resolving to secure a college education, he 
entered Oak Grove Seminary, Vassalboro,Me.,a school under the control of 
the Society of Friends, and went from there to Haverford College. After 
completing the Freshman year there, he returned to his native state and 
entered the Sophomore class at Bowdoin. He remained here until his 
graduation three years later, being a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon 
fraternity. He then taught for a year in the high school at Lexington, 
Mass., going thence to become the principal of the high school at Gorham, 
N. H. After a few years of work there, he decided to enter private school 
work, and came to the Academy, as stated above, in 1903. 

His work comprised both science and French. He roomed at first 
in the South Wing, but soon was put in charge of the Main Building 
of Davis Hall. He was married in the summer of 1908 to Louise Stratton 
of Laconia, N. H., whom he had met while at Gorham, and for five years 
thereafter occupied the suite on the first fioor of North Dexter. In 
1913 he moved to the rooms on the first floor of the Main Building, which 
he occupied until the past summer, when it was arranged for him to live 
outside the school, and he had just settled in an attractive home on 
Germain Street when the call to the new work came. 

Like all Academy teachers, he assumed a certain amount of adminis- 
trative woi'k from the start. His ability in this line was so evident, 
and his wisdom and tact in matters of tliscipline so marked, that various 
duties of this sort fell to him successively, and about seven years ago, 
when Dr. Abercrombie wished to delegate fully and definitely to another 
certain important administrative tasks, Mr. Towle was selected for these, 
and given the title of Assistant to the Principal. Last June, on the 
assumption by Mr. Holmes of the principalshij), ]\Ir. Towle was made 
Assistant Principal. 

These positions brought him in charge of most of the disciplinary 
details of the school life, including in particular, permissions, absences, 
and tardiness, the assignment of rooms, church attendance, as well as 
the more serious matters of discipline. In all these vexing problems he 
won the full respect and co-operation of the l)oys, and they always recog- 
nized his sense of justice and his devotion to their true interest. A large 
part of the correspondence with parents came under his hand. He was 
each summer in direct charge of the admission of new pupils to the school. 
Throughout it all he retained his classes in botany and biology, and was 
much of the time the practical head of the department of science. He 



WORCESTER ACADEMY BULLETIN 17 

was from its organization an honorary member of Agora, and was always 
active in promoting its interests. 

His connections outside the school were many. For several years, in 
association with Mr. MacMillan, then the head of the physical training 
at the Academy and now known internationally for his arctic explorations, 
he conducted a boys' summer camp at Bustin's Island in Casco Bay. He 
was fond of mountain climbing and was an active member of the Appala- 
chian Club. He was a member of the Rotary Club and the Economic 
Club of Worcester, and a regular attendant of All Saints' Episcopal 
Church. Within the last year or two Dr. Abercrombie and Mr. Holmes 
had infected him with their enthusiam for golf, and he had to his credit 
many a good score on the links of the city. He has been a Mason since his 
days in Gorham. 

At his last Chapel service the school and faculty presented him with a 
handsome Hamilton watch with a chain and Masonic charm, the words 
of presentation being spoken by George Johnson of the Senior class, for 
the boys, and Mr. 41drich, for the faculty. The case of the watch was 
engraved with the monogram C. A. T., and on the inside were the words 
"Johnny" Towle, the name by which he was fondly known to the boys. 

No one will regret his leaving the place he has so long filled more than 
the alumni, who to the number of hundreds have looked upon him as an 
honored and beloved part of their school. The returning boy always 
sought him out, and the letters to school seldom failed to include a kind 
remembrance for him. In his long career also he had formed deep friend- 
ships with many of his colleagues, bonds which will outlast the Academy 
days, and will remain strong and tender during the coming years. Dr. 
Abercrombie, in particular, found great comfort and satisfaction in the 
loyahy^ and efficiency of the man who stood so closely beside him in the 
stress and moil of conducting the multiple sides of the school life, and 
whose counsel he valued all the more, as he repeatedly said, because 
their temperaments were so different. Mr. Towle's going removes 
indeed a hand and a personality that the school could ill afford to lose, 
but it cannot take away the fifteen years of true and productive service 
that he had built into the very texture of Worcester Academy. This will 
remain until the last of the boys who knew him drops from the pages of 
the school's living alumni. 

Fred D. Aldrich, '91. 



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Memorial Tablet to Dr. Abercrombie 

There was placed in The Megaron the past fall the memorial tal^let to 
Doctor Abercrombie which this cut represents. It was presented by the 
members of the faculty of last year. It is placed on the east wall of the 
alcove-platform, being thus one of the first objects to attract the attention 
as a person enters The Megaron from Walker Hall, perhaps the most com- 
mon approach. The inscription is easily legible from the cut, and seeks to 
perpetuate in imperishable bronze the impression made by Doctor Aber- 
crombie upon those men who worked most closely with him and who 
knew so well his ideals and ambitions for the school and for his boys. 



WORCESTER ACADEMY BULLETIN 19 



Dr. Abercrombie in Leisure 

During the summer Doctor and Mrs. Abercrombie settled themselves comfortably in 
the new home they had bought at 8 Trowbridge Road, Worcester. They were found 
there when the fall term of the Academy opened, and were happy in receiving the re- 
turning teachers and old boys, who would drop over now and then to see the "Doctor." 
After the school had been in session two or three weeks, Doctor Abercrombie came up 
one morning, leading the Chapel service and speaking a hearty word to the boys. 

In October, accompanied by Mrs, Abercrombie. he closed his home for the winter 
and visited in New York, attending in the meantime his son Ralph's wedding which 
took place November 2. They then went to Haverford and remained until Christmas 
with his daughter Esther, whose husband, Dr. Dean B. Lockwood, has this year become 
head of the Latin department at Haverford College. While here, an urgent call came 
to him to act as treasurer of the funds of the Athletic Division of the Naval Recreation 
Work of the government. After some consideration he finally decided not to accept 
this offer, although this opportunity to take part in war-work was very tempting. 

About January 1, Doctor and Mrs. Abercrombie went to Florida, where they pur- 
pose to remain through most, if not all, of the winter. Their address is the Pines, Day- 
tona, Fla. They expect to return to their Worcester home in the spring. 

For several weeks Doctor Abercrombie has been suffering from a general attack of 
rheumatism, which has particularly affected his right hand, necessitating its being 
kept in splints and making it very difficult for him to write. The last word from him 
states that some evidences of improvement can be seen. The boys and teachers of 
the Academy, who were in the school last year, sent Doctor Abercrombie at Christmas 
a set of the Odyssey with the Greek and the Latin translation on parallel pages, a 
gift which gave him great pleasure as an evidence that the old fellows did not forget 
him and that they were so mindful of his fondest tastes. 

Later information in regard to himself and his plans comes in a letter dated Feb. 27: 

"You will be glad to know that my hand is beginning to mend. The inflammation is 
reducing, and I haven't worn it in the splints for a week now after two and a half months 
'close bounds.' I am still full of rheumatism, but inflammation has broken out only in 
the right hand. My knuckles on that hand hardly look like knuckles yet, and the 
fingers are stiffly inflexible. The weather here has been very unfavorable for the trouble 
during this month for it has been rainy, very damp with steaming heat, as it were. 

"We leave here this coming Wednesday, March 5, for St. Augustine. The weather 
is growing too warm, and we feel it wise to start northward, and break the long journej' 
by a stop here and there. We shall be in St. Augustine about a month, and may find a 
little suburban town near Charleston, S. C. where we shall stay a week or so. Then we 
go on to Haverford again for another visit with Esther and Dean, and later to New York 
to be with Dan and Ralph till summer. Both have been sick, Dan very sick, but both 
are better now." 



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laoU of ^onor 

Albert H. Michelson, '97 
Lieut. George L. Howard, '02 
Sergt. Ralph L. Cook, '04 
Sergt. Sumter Arnold, '05 
Marson I. Buttfield, '09 
Lieut. Lawrence Cowing, '06 
Sergt. Carl B. Kruse, '06 
Lieut. Carl A. Dudley, '07 
Lieut. H. Rockwood Knight, '08 
Lieut. Charles R. Bull, '09 
Paym. George A. Hunt, '09 
Lieut. Errol D. Marsh, '09 
Corp. Clifford J. Stevens, '09 
Corp. Harold L. Button, '10 
Merrill S. Gaunt, '10 
Arthur H. Webber, '11 
Frank E. Starrett, '12 
Sergt. Paul H. Knowles, '13 
Corp. Elston A. Day, '15 
Lieut. Warren T. Hobbs, '15 
Sergt. Andrew J. Provost, '16 
Joseph W. Zwinge, '16 
D. Emory Holman, '17 
Lewis A. Young, '17 
Trueman E. Kile, '18 
Corp. Vincent W. Marshall, '18 
Lieut. Clifford G. Park, '19 



WOHCEWTER ACADEMY BULLETIN 21 



Worcester Academy in the War 

Note. Sketches of Michelson and Gaunt appeared in the Bulletin of March, 1916; 
of Arnold and Starrett in December, 1917; of Knight, and some further facts in regard 
to Starrett, in March, 1918 ; of Stevens, Hobbs, and Zwinge in June, 1918. 

We have further learned in regard to Webber, whose death was reported last June, 
that he was killed in an aeroplane accident at Fort Worth, Tex., April 1916, being 
attached at that time to squadron 84 of the U. S. Aviation Service, and being also a 
member of the British Royal Flying Corps. Reference to Buttfield, '06, is deferred 
to the next issue. 

LIEUTENANT GEORGE L. HOWARD, '02 

Lieut. George Leslie Howard died August 12, 1918 in Flanders, from wounds received 
in action three days before. 

At the first threat of war in Mexico in 1916 he joined Company K, First New York 
Infantry, National Guard. It developed that his regiment was not needed on the 
border at that tiTne. In the spring of 1917, shortly before the declaration of war, he was 
commissioned a lieutenant in the supplj- department of the first infantry and detached 
from his company. For a time he was stationed at Utica where he worked indefatigably 
to get the regiment equipped on a war basis. When the New York Guard was ordered 
into training at Spartanburg he was made a line officer and assigned to Company L, 
105th Infantry, which was made up largely of veteran troops who had seen border ser- 
vice. He went to France with the 27th Division in May 1918, spent five weeks in an 
officers' training camp over there, then rejoined his company and moved to the front. 
He was promoted to first lieutenant July 1. A letter from him dated Aug. 1, about a 
week preceding his death, stated that his company expected any minute to be sent to 
the front firing line. News from the War Department reported first that he had been 
seriously wounded by a stray shell in action Aug. 9. The next evening another mes- 
sage to his father officially announced his death Aug. 12. He was buried at Esquel- 
vecq, France. 

He was born in Malone, N. Y., March 4, 1884, the son of George S. Howard. He was 
a member of the junior class at Worcester Academy during the year 1900-1901. He 
then took a year at Phillips Andover and entered Yale where he remained two years, 
and then cut short his studies to enter upon a business career. He entered the employ 
of Austin Nichols & Company, wholesale grocers of New York City, and remained with 
them two years. Later he traveled extensively through the West for the Dennison Co. 
His father in the meantime had become heavily interested in a wholesale grocery house 
at Malone, and the son came back home in 1907 to assume its management, in which 
work he was very successful . 

He was very popular in his home town, and was particularly skillful in staging enter- 
tainments for charitable purposes. He was married May 5, 1917, securing leave of 
absence from duty at Peekskill, N. Y. for the wedding, to Ina Williams of Lancaster, 
Ontario, who survives him without children. 

A memorial service at Malone was very largely attended, and showed the esteem in 
which he was held by his townsmen, many of whom had known him from boyhood. No 
cut of him is available. 

SERGEANT RALPH L. COOK, '04 

Ralph Louis Cook, Sergeant 1st Class, 26th Aero Squadron, died in France Oct. 20, 
1918, after a short illness from appendicitis. He enlisted early in July, 1917, and for a 



22 WORCESTER ACADEMY BULLETIN 

short time was stationed at one of the aviation ramiis on Lonji; Island. Previous to 
enlisting he had liad considerable experience with the aerojjlane, having made a number 
of flights with an instructor. He arrived in Enghiud in Sejitember 1917, and soon after 
went across to P'rance where he remained until his death, being much of the time in 
Issodun. 

He was born in Worcester aljout 1884, the son of Le Roy Cook. He was a student 
at the Academy from January 1899 to June 1901, entering with the preparatory class. 
Soon afterwards he removed to California. At the time of his enlistment he was living at 
White Plains, New York. He was married in 1914 to Mary Adella Moore, who sur- 
vives him. 

A letter sent from the Chaplain of his Corps says that he was buried the day after his 
death with military ceremonies and with the Masonic ritual in the American cemetery 
near the army post. He speaks of a touching little incident. Another soldier was 
being buried far from his command without escort, without flowers. Sergeant Cook's 
commander noted this, and from the wealth of flowers at his grave he ordered a choice 
piece placed on the stranger's grave, in the belief that he woifld want to share with his 
brother soldier. The chaplain was a professor at the Newton Theological Institution, 
a circimistance very gratifying to his family as, while in Worcester, Cook and his people 
attended the First Baptist Church. "Clean-cut, conscientious, high principled," 
"make it strong what a royal good sport he was, and how well liked. " "one of the finest 
men in the organization of the post, " were some of the comments made by his comrades. 

LIEUTENANT LAWRENCE COWINCi, '06 

Lieut. Lawrence Cowing died at Bordeaux, France, September 13, of a rare type of 
jaundice (Weil's disease), following influenza. His sister, in Red Cross Canteen work in 
France, was present at his funeral, but could not reach him before his death. He was 
ill only a week. He was attended in the hospital by Major Hugh Cabot of Boston. 

He was born in 1886, the son of R. A. Cowing of ^^'yoming, O. He entered Worcester 
Academy in the fall of 1904 as a member of the junior class, and was here until June, 1906. 
He roomed in Dexter Hall, and was prominent in baseball and other athletics, holding 
the school championship in tennis. He was an uncle of C. Estes Wood, '09. 

After leaving Worcester, he spent most of his time on the Pacific Coast. He was for 
a couple of years at Spokane, about three years at Portland, Ore., in the real estate 
business, and for the last two years at Los Angeles. He continued his fondness for 
sport, and had a host of real friends wherever he went. He was a member of the Los 
Angeles Country Club, and was amateur golf champion of California in 1916. 

At the beginning of the war he enlisted a private in the 144th Field Artillery at 
Los Angeles. Was made a sergeant at once, and was appointed 2nd lieutenant in 
about six months. The regiment sailed across about the middle of last August, he 
being thus on the other side only about a month. He worked hard and had the 
respect of his fellow officers and the affection of his men. His colonel told his sister 
that he was the one man in the regiment who could not be replaced. 

SERGEANT CARL B. KRUSE, '06 

Sergt. Carl Ballauf Kruse died Oct. 18, 1918, of influenza in his home city, Cincinnati. 
He had been in war service since June. At the time war was declared he tried to get 
into special work but failed to pass the physical requirements. Last June, however, he 
was inducted into the motor train unit which had been established at the University of 
Cincinnati. After the first term he was asked to remain as an instructor and was soon 
made sergeant. He was about to be made top sergeant when he became ill. 



WORCESTER ACADEMY BULLETIN 23 

He was stricken with the influenza wliile helping others during the worst stages of the 
epidemic in his city. At first he did not seem seriously sick, but after pneumonia 
developed he lasted only a short time. He was buried in military form, eight of his 
soldier friends acting as pall bearers. 

He was born in 1887, the son of Charles Kruse of Cincinnati. In the fall of 1903 he 
entered the second-year class of the Academy, following his two older brothers, Robert L. 
Kruse, '99 and Edgar A. Kruse, '01. He remained here until the end of his junior year, 
rooming in Dexter Hall. For about five years after he left Worcester he was in the 
automobile business with liis brother Edgar, after which he sold the Kelly-Springfield 
motor truck. 

His brother Edgar writes of him: "Carl was 31 years old when he died and was the 
youngest boy in our family and the only child left at home. His parents naturally feel 
their loss greatly, but in view of the fact that he was doing his bit for his country they 
are bearing up well." 

We regret that it has been impossible to get a portrait to accompany this sketch. No 
one of the fellows who knew him and loved him in Worcesterneedsacut, however, to recall 
the features of their friend Carl, who gave his life for others in the emergency of the 
epidemic. 

LIEUTENANT CARL A. DUDLEY, '07 

Lieut. Carl Abell Dudley was killed in action upon the western front in P'rance, 
Sept. 15, 1918, while serving as an officer in C Company, 306th Machine Gun Battalion, 
U. S. A. The following sketch and j^ersonal tribute was written by Lieut. Harry L- 
Wiggin, who himself is just home from France, and who by virtue of their class comrade- 
ship and their close work together in the Legomathenian Society doubtless knew Carl 
more intimately at the Academy than any other member of the school. 

"Lieutenant Dudley was born in Keene, N. H. on February 27, 1889. He was the 
son of Darwin E. Dudley, who was a well known Boston insurance man. Carl spent 
his boyhood days in Keene and entered Worcester Academy in the Fall of 1903 as a 
member of the class of 1906. After a year and a half with the '06 class, he dropped 
back to the class of 1907. During his school career he was one of the most popular 
members, not only of his class but of the school. His motto used to be "school first, 
then the Class." There was no task too great for him nor was there any to which 
he refused to give his best. A brief list of his various activities will show the faith and 
trust that the school and his classmates had in him. In the Fall of 1906 he played 
guard on the Varsity; was a most influential man on the Board of Monitors; was an 
editor on the Academy Weekly board, and it was chiefly through his efforts that the 
school paper was changed to the name of Vigornia, he being its first editor-in-chief; 
he was class orator his senior year and his oration on Class Day was very highly spoken 
of; in class athletics he was a very prominent member on the football, basketball, 
and gym teams, being on three of the class championship teams; as a member of the 
Legomathenian Society he was a debater of the keenest type, being a member of the 
debating team two years, at one time its president, and for eight terms on its executive 
committee. 

"After graduating from Worcester he entered Harvard, but on account of his father's 
death in June 1908 left college and entered the employ of the Boston Transcript. He was 
a member of the city staff, and his duty was to "cover" police headquarters. From 
the Transcript he went into the employ of Walter Baker & Co., Ltd., in that company's 
advertising department. After several years there, he went to New York, to become 
associated with the Three Examiners in the advertising department. 

"In December 1917 he was called by the draft into the service, and was sent to Camp 



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Serjit. Ral])li L. Cook, '04 Lieut. Lawrence Cowing, '06 





Lieut. Carl A. Dudley, '07 



Lieut. Charles R. Bull, '09 



WORCESTER ACADEMY BULLETIN 25 

Upton, N. Y. He was assigned to the 152nd Depot Brigade, but was shortly trans- 
ferred to a machine gun company. When the call sounded for the Third Officers' 
Training Camp, he was among the first selected from the enlisted personnel, and on 
January 5 started in his three months' intensive training. At the completion of his 
course he came out a "candidate officer "and was assigned to the 305th Machine Gun 
Battalion, which left for France in the early spring. Near the end of the summer he 
received his commission, and was assigned to the 306th Machine Gun Battalion, serving 
with C Company at the time of his death. 

"To those who knew Carl, especially the members of his class, this news will be re- 
ceived with great sorrow. He will be greatly missed at all the school gatherings. We 
are proud of him, proud to have known him and to have been associated with him. He 
gave his life willingly, in the service of his country, that democracy might triumph 
over autocracy." 

He is survived by his stepmother, Mrs. L. F. Wheeler of 52 Massachusetts Avenue, 
Cambridge, Mass. He had no brothers nor sisters. 

On the day that his death was announced to the Academy boys in the chapel and 
the school stood at attention in his honor, Paul Hultman, also of '06, happened to be 
present. He arose and spoke most feelingly of his old schoolmate, emphasizing the 
manner in which he always stood for that which is right and clean and honorable, and 
how he had led the school toward the best things. 

LIEUTENANT CHARLES R. BULL, '09 

Lieut. Charles Roy Bull died in Camp Lee, Va. Oct. 11, 1918, from pneumonia. His 
military service began in April 1917, when he joined the training school at Plattsburg. 
After three months he received his honorable discharge, and in the early fall took a 
position with the War Risk Insurance Dept., U. S. Treasury, Washington. He filled 
this position, which was important government service, until April, 1918. In that 
month he went to Camp Upton, L. I., became a sergeant, and in July was sent to the 
Officers' Training School at Camp Lee, Va. Here he received his commission as 2nd 
Lieutenant almost simultaneously with his death, which occurred during the epidemic 
which raged in that camp during October. 

He was born in 1891, the son of George W. Bull. He came to the Academy in the 
fall of 1905, his home at that time being Monticello, Maine. He entered the first year 
class, and, completing the regular course of four years, was graduated in 1909. He 
was a member of Sigma Zeta Kappa, and became prominent in many of the activities 
of the school. His younger brother. Frank A., came with him to the Academy in 1906. 

Charles entered Bowdoin and was graduated there in the class of 1914, being a 
member of Alpha Delta Phi. He then entered the George Washington Law School 
at Washington, D. C, graduating in 1916. During his studies here he for a time was in 
the law division of the Library of Congress. He at once accepted a position in the law 
office of Harrington, Bingham & Englar, 64 Wall St., New York City, passing the 
New York bar examination that fall,and remained with this firm until he went to Platts- 
burg just after the United States entered the war. 

His career in Bowdoin, in his legal studies, and in his government service uniformly 
bears testimony to his splendid qualities and mental gifts. A close friend speaks of 
his life, which unfortunately came to its end so soon, as a fine, clear continuation of 
the qualities and possibilities he showed at Worcester. He came to the Academy a 
young boy and grew into youth while here. Everybody was fond of him, and recognized 
his powers and his charm as a friend. His long stay in the school and his close con- 
nection with its varied interests mark him as one of the most thoroughly Worcester 
boys of those the Academy has given to the country in this war. 



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PAYMASTER GEORGE A. HUNT, '09 

George Allen Hunt was killed at Philadelphia about February 1, by falling into the 
hold of a vessel while superintending the loading of supplies. He joined the Navy 
shortly after the war was declared, and at his death held the grade of Paymaster. He 
had formerly been a member of the state militia and did strike duty with his regiment 
at Lawrence in 1912. 

He was born in Rockland, Mass., about 18S9, the son of George H. Hunt. He entered 
the Academy in September 1906, being registered with the second year class, and 
remained here two years. For the last six years he has lived at Wollaston, Mass., 
and at the time of his enlistment was employed in the loan department of the Old Col- 
ony Trust Company of Boston. He was a member of the Wollaston Yacht Club; was 
also a Mason. A wife and two children survive him. 

LIEUTENANT ERROL D. MARSH, '09 

Lieut. Errol Dwight Marsh, ;S19th Iiifantr}-, was killed in action Nov. 2, 1918, in 
France. The first word to his father was sent by a brother officer who found the body 
as the Americans were advancing against the German lines in the last great battle of 
the war and who wrote this hurried word; "I came across your son early Nov. 2. Being 
on the same mission for which he gave his life, every second counted. Noting his being 
an officer, I looked for identification for military reasons. I merely looked in his 
kit bag and these three pages in a note book caught my eye. One of them demands that 
I send them back to the transport for mailing, as I am going on and might not get 
another chance." One page of the note book contained Lieut. Marsh's full home 
address. 

This letter from the battlefield came to the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dwight 
F. Marsh, Westboro, Mass., in the afternoon, and was followed in the evening by the 
receipt of a letter from their son written some days before his death and telling of his 
transfer from the 302nd infantry to the 319th, and stating that he was in charge of 
800 men similarly transferred. The official notification of his death came some time 
later. 

He was born in Ware, Mass. July 19, 1889. He attended the schools of Westboro, 
whither his parents had removed, and after graduating from the high school and a short 
term of study at Andover, he entered the Academy in the fall of 1907 as a day student. 
He remained here two years, and then entered Dartmouth college. After three years 
there he returned to Westboro, and entered business with his father in the manufacture 
of trellises and plant sticks. For awhile he was connected with Willett, Sears & Co., 
wholesalers of Boston. 

Following the nation's declaration of war he went to Plattsburg and received his 
commission as 2nd Lieutenant at the conclusion of the first period of instruction. With 
the formation of the 76th Division, he was summoned to active duty at Camp Devens. 
His division went overseas on July 4, last, and had been engaged at the front constantly 
after that time. 

He was married August 23, 1917 to Miss Jane Nason, daughter of Mrs. John S. Nason 
of Westboro. The wife was in Florida with her mother at the time of Lieut. Marsh's 
death and the news was telegraphed her there. His letters home have been full of 
expressions of affection to his family and of devotion to the military service. Mr. Al- 
drich met him in Hanover shortly after his marriage, and wiU long remember the splendid 
appearance which he presented in his lieutenant's uniform. 



WORCESTER ACADEMY BULLETIN 27 

CORPORAL HAROLD L. DUTTON, '10 

Corp. Harold Laforest Dutton died Nov. 23, 1918, of wounds received in the Argonne 
Forest Oct. 13 previous. Notice of his death did not reach his family until Dec. 16. 
They had not received a letter from him since Oct. 1, and early in December word was 
received that he was missing in action. This was followed the next day by a telegram 
that he was restored to his regiment. At last reports no details as to the nature of his 
wounds had been received, and the family have been at a loss to understand the con- 
flicting statements and also why they received no word of any kind from Oct. 13 until 
Dec. It is believed however that he was wounded and taken prisoner and probably 
found in a German prison hospital after the armistice was signed. 

He was born about 1890, the son of Henry H. Dutton. He entered Worcester Acad- 
emy in the fall of 1908, registering in the second-year class. He remained here two years. 
He was prominent in athletics, particularly in football and in the weight events. He 
was also elected Manager of the track team for his last year. He was a member of the 
Legomathenian Society. 

After two years at the Academy he entered the Wharton School of the University 
of Pennsylvania, being there a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. After re- 
ceiving his diploma there he returned to Portsmouth N. H., his former home, and as- 
sociated himself with his father in the wholesale butter and egg business, and soon 
became one of the best known young business men of the city. At the beginning of 
the war he twice offered his services but was rejected for physical reasons . Later he was 
drafted and finally accepted, and went to Camp Devens Mar. 29, 1918. He was there 
only eighteen days, and later was transferred to Camp Dix. He soon was sent overseas 
as Corporal in Company F. 325th Infantry, 82nd Division, and received three months' 
training in France. Active fighting for him came in June, and he was in the big St. 
Mihiel salient and later in the Argonne. 

He was married March 14, 1918, just before going to Camp Devens, to Miss Alice 
Gifford. The first word of his death came to the Academy in a letter from her ac- 
knowledging the school's New Year's greeting, in which she says; "I write you because 
I know you will want to know how bravely another of your boys has sacrificed his all 
and left so mam^ of us lonely for him." The pathos of his death will come home all 
the more closely to his many W.A. friends on account of the doubt as to the circumstances 
of his last days as well as the way in which his death became known to his old school. 

Note. Full details of his death, received too late for this issue, will appear in the 
next Bulletin. 

SERGEANT PAUL H. KNOWLES, '13 

Sergt. Paul Hawthorne Knowles died November 15, 1918, from pneumonia, in the 
Mars Military Hospital in France. He was buried with full military honors in the 
Military Cemetery in that place. His older brother Carroll was with him at the last. 

He volunteered in May, 1917, for service in an Officers' Training Camp, but was re- 
jected on account on being underweight and because of a defective heart. In September, 
1917, however, he was drafted, and at that time accepted, being assigned to Company A, 
314th Field Signal Battalion, 89th Division. In May, 1918, he was appointed to at- 
tend an Officers' Training Camp, but the order was cancelled and he was immediately 
detailed to oversea duty. After two months in training in France, he was made a 
Corporal. About this time his division was sent to the front, taking ])art in the opera- 
tions at Chateau Thierry, Soissons, St. Mihiel, Verdun, and the Argonne Forest. In 
this period he was made a Sergeant-Major. He was wounded November 5, in the 
closing days of the battle in the Argonne Forest, and died ten days later, the wound 
apparently developing into pneumonia. 



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Lieut. Errol D. Marsh, '09 Corp. Harold L. Button, '10 




Sergt. Paul H Knowles, '13 Corp. Elston A. Day, '15 



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He was born October 23, 1894, and thus was 24 years of age at the time of his death. 
He entered the Academy together with his older brother, Carroll W. Knowles, '11, in. 
the fall of 1907, and was here for four years, being registered when he left in June, 1911 
with the second year class. He was very prominent in the athletics and the other 
activities of the younger boys of the school. After leaving Worcester, he completed 
his preparation for college in high school and entered Hamilton College in 1915. He 
is survived beside his brother, Carroll, by his mother, Mrs. Kathervn Solari of 205 
West 89th St., New York City, and by a younger brother, Robert L., who has been in 
the Navy on the U. S. Super-dreadnought Florida, in foreign service under Admiral 
Sir David Beatty, and who has just returned with hearing much impaired from his 
service. 

CORPORAL ELSTON A. DAY, '15 

Corp. Elston Almond Day died Sept. 26, 1918, during the influenza epidemic at 
Camp Devens. He was an alumnus of the class of 1915. He entered in September, 
1913, and soon was well known because of his high scholarship and good-natured will- 
ingness to help others. Among other things, he was a football man, a member of 
Agora, and in his senior year, a monitor. 

The fall following his graduation, Elston went to the Massachusetts Agricultural 
College, where he joined Beta Kappa Phi fraternity. One year was the length of his 
stay in college, for in June, 1916, he left to go into the business of contractor's supplies 
with his father. About two years later, he married Miss Abbie Adams, of Northbridge. 

Although rejected on account of his eyes. Day tried twice to enlist before going to 
Camp Devens on July 24, scarcely a month after his marriage. There he passed the 
highest psychological government examination, and became a corporal, serving as 
clerk to A Co. of the 74th Inf., when he succumbed to an attack of pneumonia fol- 
lowing influenza. 

Day is buried in Princeton, Maine, in which town he was born, December 26, 1893. 
Although attending primary school there, it was in Waterville that he went to grammar 
school. At the end of this time he left Waterville, and in Northbridge, Mass., grad- 
uated from high school before entering Worcester Academy, where he remained two 
years. A. H. Welch, '15. 

SERQEANT ANDREW J. PROVOST, '16 

Sergt. Andrew Jay Provost, 3d, '16, died Nov. 7, 1918, from wounds received in 
action Nov. 1. His regiment had been in action on the St. Mihiel front from Sept. 12 
to Oct. 4, and in the Argonne Forest from Oct. 12 to the end of hostilities. From a 
companion wounded the same day, Provost's father has received information that 
makes it appear almost certain that Andrew fell in the Bois de Loge a few miles north 
of Grand Pre, which town his division had captured and held a few days before, after it 
had been taken and retaken several times. 

He was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., Mar. 20, 1894, but his home since early childhood 
was in Richmond Hill, N. Y., where he attended the public schools until he entered 
the Manual Training High School in Brooklyn. For an intermediate period before 
entering Worcester Academy he was in the employ of the city, and worked with the 
engineering force on the construction of a portion of the Catskill Aqueduct. This 
contact with trained technical men awakened in him the desire to resume his studies. 
Accordingly he entered Worcester Academ\ in January, 1913, as a member of the second 
year class, and remained until June, 1914. His interest in school activities increased 
gradually and before he left he was looked upon as a leader in the school. He was a 
member of the Legomathenian Society. A younger brother, Balston, was a student 
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Upcn leaving the Academy it was his purpose to 
master the practical and technical details of the manu- 
facture of woolen goods, and with this end in view he 
entered the Amoskeag Mills at Manchester, N. H. He 
proved very efficient in problems connected with com- 
plicated high speed machinery. During his last year 
at Manchester his work attracted the attention of 
other mills, and before he entered the army he received 
very flattering offers which he declined, for his mind at 
that time was fiilly absorbed with the hope of entering 
the aviation service. He entered upon training in 
this service and soon qualified, and was promised an 
assigmiient which would lead to a commission. Before 
he was asked to report, however, he was in active service 
with the British Reserves in France, and his transfer 
could not be arranged. Although this was a keen 
disappointment, his letters show that he liked the infantry and was proud of the two 
promotions which he received. One of liis last letters home said that he was out for 
higher rank. This ambition was fulfilled, as the U. S. War Department has officially 
listed him as sergeant, a promotion that had been recommended when he wrote his last 
letter only three days before he was wounded. This communication from the U. S. 
Army authorities as well as the sector in which he was last fighting shows that he had 
been transferred from the British Army to an American division. The action on 
Nov. 1, in which he met his death, was the final decisive operation, and only a nominal 
resistance thereafter was encountered in the advance of the Americans to Sedan. 

Sergt. Provost's father speaks repeatedly in his letter to us of Andrew's deep loyalty 
and affection to Worcester Academy, its traditions, its masters, and its students. He 
says: "Coming to it without proper preliminary training in application and school 
discipline he soon became conscious of the spirit that prevailed, and counted the days 
spent there among the happiest and most useful of his life. After he left it, in the work- 
room and on the battlefield, I am sure he carried the Academy's banner in his heart." 



D. EMORY HOLMAN, '17 

David Emory Holman died Oct. 9, 1918, of pneumonia following influenza. He had 
enlisted the March previous as second class seaman, in the Naval Reserve at Newport, 
R. I., and was at the Naval Station at Newport through the summer. About the middle 
of September he was seized with the influenza, and at the end of a week developed 
pneumonia, being very ill from the first. His mother and sister were with him for the 
last two weeks before the end came. The funeral services were held at his home, 
39 Pleasant Street, Attleboro. Mass. 

Emory was born November 15, 1896, bemg the second son of Samuel M. Holman of 
Attleboro. He attended the local schools of that town, and was graduated from the 
High School in the class of 1916. While there he gained a reputation as an athlete, 
being proficient in all four major sports, but particularly skilful in basketball, and was 
captain of the team during the season of his senior year. 

He entered Worcester Academy in the fall of 1916, having it in his mind at that time 
to prepare for Brown University. He entered into athletics here also and received his 
W in football. The following simimer he was at the White Mountain Camps at Tam- 
worth, New Hampshire. When fall came he entered the employment of the Lewis 
Manufacturing Company of Walpole. Mass., makers of hospital supplies, and remained 



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with them until March when he enlisted. While at Walpole, he coached the basket- 
ball team of the high school. 

After being at Newport about three months and serving as orderly detail at the Sec- 
ond Naval District Receiving Barracks, he made an application for transfer to aviation, 
and in this purpose he wrote Dr. Abercrombie under date of June 13: "I have been 
stationed at Newiicrt for the past three months, enlisted as a seaman, and have decided 
that I can serve my country better in the capacity of a pilot in Naval Aviation. In 
order to enter this branch of the service, it is necessary to have three letters of recom- 
mendation in regard to the applicant's character, and I know of no recommendation 
that I would value so highly as I would one from you. " 

Besides his parents he is survived by a sister and a brother. The estimate that he 
won from his associates, both in school and in his short life afterward, is well summed 
up in the following words written his mother by a Y. M. C. A. secretary in charge at the 
Naval Station at Newport: "May I say that there was no one in camp better liked by 
all men who knew him, a splendid man with a big heart. He has given his all for his 
country as much as any who have fought, for he has borne the hardships of an exacting 
camp life and its tedious routine, far from the excitement and exhilaration of active 
warfare, with unceasing effort. " 

LEWIS A. YOUNG, M7 

Lewis Armstrong Young, machinist's mate on the U. S. S. M«ri>/ia, died of influenza 
Oct. 15, 1918, while his ship was in port at Bordeaux. He had been ill only about a 
week, but grew steadily worse from the beginning. The best medical aid was available 
but it proved impossible to stay the progress of the disease. His burial was military, 
and the body was accompanied to the grave by the full ship's crew, as well as over one 
hundred Masons from the shore station. 

His service began on July 26, 1917, when he enlisted in the Naval Reserve as machin- 
ist's mate, second class, and was assigned to the receiving ship at Commonwealth Pier. 
He was there a week and then left rather unexpectedly for the Brooklyn Navy Yard to 
join the U. S S. Marietta and to go overseas. This unexpected transfer gave him 
no chance to go to his home in Province town to say goodbye. He did see his brother, 
Arthur J.Young, '16. in Boston, and his mother and his fiancee, Miss F. Louise Waldin of 
Provincetown, went to New York and were with him for two or three evenings. Lewis 
then left for Newport and then for overseas, being lieard from about two months 
afterward at the Azores. His ship was on duty largely in the Mediterranean, touching 
at Gibraltar and various other ports. In a log which he kept and which is now a 
highly prized possession of his mother, he speaks of submarine attacks and of the pos- 
sible sinking of one by his ship. Later the ship was ordered to a port on the west 
coast of France, where it was stationed when his death occurred. He had been made 
acting Chief Machinist, and was soon to have received definite promotion to that rank. 

While at Commonwealth Pier Lewis and a fellow Mason became very much attached 
and they hoped to be assigned to the same ship. This desire however was not granted, 
but the transport Covington, en which his friend had been placed, was sunk off France, 
and his friend, who was rescued, found him again and they later were together on the 
Marietta as they had at first hoped. This friend was with him during his illness, and 
stood watch with him the night before his death. 

Lewis Young was born Feb. 8, 1896, the son of William H. Young of 12 Carver Street, 
Provincetown, Mass. He was at the Academy in the fall of 1914, his brother Arthur J. 
Young, '16, entering at the same time. After leaving the Academy, and after attending 
Gushing for some time, he entered the Wentworth Institute, where he finished his 



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D. Emory Holman, '17 



Lewis A. Young, '17 




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course as an accomplished inachiuist. In the fall of the next year he took a course in 
ignition at the Y. M. C. A. Northeastern School. That summer he operated a garage 
for Dr. C. P. Curley in Provincetown, and the next fall took a position with the Chandler 
Automobile Company for which he worked until the time of his enlistment. His 
efficient work with them opened to him excellent prospects for business advancement, 
but he laid it all aside when he felt he should join the forces of his country. 

TRUEMAN E. KILE, '18 

Trueman Eugene Kilo died December (J, 1918. He was a member of the S. A. T. C. 
at the Massachusetts State College, Amherst, Mass. He was born April 19, 1898, the 
son of B. E. Kile of 295 Olney Street, Providence, R. I. He came to the Academy from 
the Hope Street High School of Providence, entering our Junior class and remaining here 
during the school year 1916-'17. 

CORPORAL VINCENT W. MARSHALL, '18 

Corp. Vincent Wilson Marshall died of influenza-pneumonia, Oct. 15, 1918, at Ann 
Arbor, Mich. He entered the University of Michigan in September, being enrolled in 
the S. A. T. C. While here he was seized by the prevailing epidemic. His father and 
mother were smnmoned from Chicago the morning of his death, and reached Ann Arbor 
at six p. M., only to find that he had passed away two hours before. 

He was born Mar. 22, 1899, the son of J. B. Marshall, now of 1040 Elmwood Ave., 
Wilmette, Chicago, 111. He was a pupil at the Asheville School for the two years 
1914-16, and entered Worcester Academy in the fall of 1916, becoming a member of 
the junior class. He was elected a member of the Sigma Zeta Kappa society, and 
interested himself in various lines of school activity. He was prominent in soccer, 
winning his letter both years of his stay here. He received his diploma in June, in the 
scientific course, and was then intending to enter Cornell, but changed his plans during 
the summer. He was popular with his fellow students at Worcester, and was looked 
upon as a boy of much promise. The news of his death will come with great sorrow, es- 
pecially to the members of his class, in whose ranks his death makes a vacant place 
in so few short weeks after the good-bye last June. The accompanying photograph 
is from the class picture. 

In the few weeks that he had been at the Univ. of Michigan he had become much 
interested in his work, and was ambitious to obtain an officer's commission. He had 
already been elected corporal. 

LIEUTENANT CLIFFORD Q. PARK, '19 

Lieut. Clifford George Park died in France sometime in October from pneumonia. 
As soon as the United States entered the war he felt a desire to enter service and did not 
return to the school in the fall of 1917. He enlisted in the aviation corps and was sent 
to the training camp at Mount Clemens, Mich. After completing the course here he 
was sent to Mineola, N. Y. He sailed for France in Aug. 1918, and was in active 
service until seized by the epidemic. 

He was born July 10, 1917, and thus was barely twenty-one at the time of his death. 
His father was George Park of Dexter. Me., manager of the Dumbarton Mills of that 
town, the family coming there from Connecticut about fifteen years ago. Following 
his attendance at the local schools Clifford entered Worcester Academy in the fall of 
1914, joining the first year class. He had been at the Academy three consecutive years 



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when he withdrew to enter the service. He was active in the work of the school's Young 
Men's Christian Association, and was always eager to lend his hand to any good cause. 
Letters received from him by his parents since his arrival overseas were filled with good 
cheer, and show him to be full of courage and eager to do his full share for his country 
in the air. He had already established among his fellow flyers a reputation for skill and 
bravery. He had found in this branch of service the way in which he could be of great 
use to his country, and his name will remain in the annals of the Academy as that of a 
manly boy who was always ready to do his duty. 

W. A. Men in Service, by Classes 

The following lists continue similar lists that have appeared in the last tbree 
issues of the Bullp:t]n. The names of all former students of the Academy known to 
have been in service are included. The names of those concerning whom no word has 
been received directly or indirectly since the last issue are given at the end of the several 
classes. Nearly two hundred names have been added in response to letters of inquiry 
sent to former students who, leaving the school before the senior year, had not been 
on our Alumni list. 

A considerable part of the information in these classes will no doubt be out of date 
by the time this issue reaches its readers. This is particularly true in regard to dis- 
charges from service and returns from abroad. Some of the statements therefore will 
have to be interpreted as applying to a date some weeks back, rather than to the present 
moment. Much effort nevertlieless has been taken to get the latest facts, and only in 
few cases have we based our statements on material reaching us earlier than December. 



1887 
Dr. Edwin G. Dexter, whose entrance 
into Red Cross service was reported in the 
June BULLETIN, has now been for some 
time Chief of the Bureau of War Orphans 
of the American Red Cross, and as such 
has a record family of some 40,000 or- 
phans. He says they are a very delightful 
little bunch. Recently a new task has 
been assigned him, namely that of organ- 
izing and directing the American Red 
Cross expedition to Montenegro. A ship 
from Marseilles is to be at his disposal. 
He expects to take with him more than 750 
tons of food and clothing; 20 automobiles 
and trucks to aid in transportation; three 
hospital units equipped with nurses and 
doctors; and a sufficient clerical personnel 
to run the expedition. The unit will be 
stationed at Pogoritza, Montenegro, and 
will remain in the country at least six 
months. Doctor Dexter expected to 
spend Christmas in Paris with his son, 
Capt. Henry V. Dexter, '14. 



1889 
Robert M. Brown was appointed in 
Oct. by the U. S. Government on a war 
emergency board to investigate the oil 
and gas production of the country. The 
general nature of the work was the plot- 
ting of curves of the flow of oil wells and 
oil pockets and the pressures of gas bearing 
rocks, with a view of determining the 
future sui)ply. He was sent to Pittsburgh, 
Pa., with the possibility of working later 
in the adjacent oil districts of West 
Virginia and Ohio. 

1890 
Pres. .John Hope, after twenty-five 
years of almost uninterrupted service at 
Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia, was 
granted some months ago six months leave 
from his duties at the college. He at once 
offered his services to the Y. M. C. A., and 
sailed in Aug. for France as assistant to 
Mr. Carter, Supervisor of the Y. M. C. A. 
work abroad. Since his arrival he has 
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colored troops, but in view of 33 years of 
close contact with men and boys he has 
had all questions concerning colored sol- 
diers referred to him. Before the arm- 
istice was signed the Y. M. C. A. asked 
for an extension of his leave for the dura- 
tion of the war and six months thereafter, 
which request was granted. His head- 
quarters are at 12 Rue d'Aguesseau, Paris. 

Dr. Fred W. Marvel has been on a 
civilian commission on Training Camp 
Activities during the summer, serving 
particularly as Inspector of Athletics for 
the War Department. He had occasion 
to study the entire work of physical 
training, visiting several camps. 

Hubert M. Sedgwick writes that his 
work as Secretary of the Athletic Division 
of the Commission on Training Camp 
Activities for the U. S. Navy is about over. 
He feels that the work, under Walter 
Cam}), has been a most interesting and 
valuable piece of activity. 

Also in service, Maj. H. W. Hobbs. 

1891 

Emmons Bryant, Capt., Service of 
Supplies, went to France last spring after 
his work in equipping recruits at Camp 
Upton. His first assignment in France 
was as Railhead Officer of the First Div., 
and later of the 2nd Div. also. In this 
capacity he handled all supplies for the 
advance of these two divisions in and 
around Chateau Thierry, one office being 
demolished and another severely bombed 
during this action. He then organized 
supplies for the advance at St. Mihiel, 
and afterwards was transferred to the 
Regulating Office at Paris, as assistant. 
In October he was made Chief Regulating 
Officer and organized all supplies for the 
advance of the 27th and 30th Div. against 
the Hindenburg Fine. In Dec. the Paris 
office was closed, and he was made Chief 
of the Regulating Office at St. Dizier. 

Also in service, Maj. S. McCullagh 
(France). 

1892 

Dr. Alexander C. Eastman is a Capt. 
in the Med. Corps, and was on Oct. 2 at 



Camp A. A. Humjjhreys, Va. His home 
address is changed to 7G Derby Dingle, 
Springfield, Mass. 

Arthur W. Ewell, Capt., has returned 
home from his work as bomb expert for 
the A. E. F. in France. He is now 
stationed in Washington, D. C. 

Ralph S. Mighill sailed in Oct. for Red 
Cross work abroad, as a commissioned 
officer. He expected his headquarters to 
be at Paris. He writes that he, being 
five months over the draft age, single, 
without dependents, and wanting to get 
into the service, found the Red Cross 
offered the best field. 

Joseph E. Raycroft, on the War Dept. 
Comm. on Training Camp Activities, is 
to be addressed at 1800 Virginia Avenue, 
Washington, D. C. 

1893 

Edwin P. Grosvenor was on Sept. 4, 
1918 commissioned Capt. in the U. S. 
Army, and detailed to the office of Chief 
of Staff of the Military Intelligence 
Div., 1330 F. Street, Washington, D. C. 

Also in service, Capt. L. E. Waring 

1895 

Lieutenant Charles Bates Dana, who has 
been Assistant Naval Attache at the Amer- 
ican Embassy at Buenos Aires, Argentina, 
was advanced early in December to full 
Naval Attache at the U. S. Legation at 
Montevideo, Uruguay. 

Dr. Walter H. Flanders was called to 
duty August 13, in the Medical Corps of 
the Navy. He was stationed at the Base 
Dispensary, NewjDort, R. I., until Novem- 
ber 6. when he was made Senior Medical 
Officer on the U. S. S.Don Juan de Austria. 
He is a Lieutenant. At the first demand 
for motor boats to be used as submarine 
chasers he turned over his boat to the gov- 
ernment. 

Hugh V. Hazeltine sailed about Dec. 1 
for Y. M. C. A. work overseas. His head- 
quarters are withtheAmericanY.M.C.A., 
12 Rue d'Aguesseau, Paris, France. 

Also in service, C. E. Eveleth. 



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1896 

John B. Hartwell, Capt. in the Med. 
Corps, was ordered to the Med. O. T. C, 
Fort Riley, Kansas, Nov. 14, 1918, and 
was discharged Dec. 7. 

Pres. Ernest M. Hopkins finished his 
work in Washington as assistant to the 
Secretary of War, in charge of Industrial 
Relations, and has returned to his work at 
Dartmouth. 

Bascom Johnson was commissioned in 
December, 1917 as Major in the Sanitary 
Corps and assigned to the Commission on 
Training Camp Activities for duty, with 
the title of Director of the Law Enforce- 
ment Division. His work is particularly 
that of combating venereal disease, keeping 
liquor from soldiers and sailors, and re- 
pressing prostitution. It will continue 
during the period of demobilization. 
Perm. Add., R. F. D., Rosslyn, Va. 

Dr. Charles A. Proctor returned last 
summer from his work in France in the 
Investigation of Aerial Photography. 

Ernest E. Wheeler, now promoted to 
Major, has been in command of the 
S. A. T. C, first at Cornell Univ. and later 
at the Univ. of Minnesota. 

Also in service: Capt. A. F. Hebard, 
Capt. C. F. Hepburn (France), A. C.Vinal. 

1897 

Roll of Honor, Consul Albert Michelson, 
died June 9, 1915, in Cologne, Germany. 

Philo D. Clark is a member of the 5th 
Co., 3d Bn., at the Inf. O. T. C, Camp 
Pike, Ark. He enlisted Sept. 10. 

Dr. Clinton S. Westcott, Lieutenant 
Med. Corps, U. S. Naval Res., has been in 
oversea duty. 

Edward S. Wilkinson has been named 
by the Y. M. C. A. war work council to go 
to Italy and take charge of all Red Tri- 
angle work in that country. He expects 
to sail al)out March 15. He has served as 
a member of the war work councils in 
Washington and Philadelphia at different 
times and as secretary of the Pennsylvania 



state board. He recently completed a 
two months" tour of the country in the 
interests of the Y. M. C. A. 

Edgar K. Wilson finished a training 
course in Oct. at the Engineer O. T. S. at 
Camp A. A. Humphreys, Va., with the 
rank of Capt., and was assigned to the 
555th Eng. Service Bn. at Camp Hum- 
phreys. Is now discharged and has re- 
sumed his work with the Pitometer Co. 

1898 

Roscoe H. Goodell is a Capt. in the 
Chemical Warfare Branch of the U. S. 
Regular Army. He is called a Line Gas 
Officer, his duty being to be present with 
his regiment at all times on the front, and 
the minute that a gas attack is launched on 
either side he takes charge of the gas 
warfare, defense or offense. He went to 
France about Nov. 1, after the prescribed 
training at Camp Kendrick, Lakehurst, 
New Jersey. 

John W. Horr has been with the War 
Industries Board, Washington, D. C He 
expects to resume his work with the 
Bethlehem Steel Co. at the end of the war. 

Elbert W. Shirk was appointed a Lieut, 
in the Naval Res. in May, 1918. He sailed 
overseas June 15, and was stationed at 
Brest, France, in charge of assembling 
and testing hydroplanes. In Sept. he 
was transferred to Queenstown, Ireland, 
with the same duties combined with the 
patrol of the Irish Coast. He was 
officially commended by Sec. Daniels and 
recommended to the Secretary of the 
Treasury for a gold life saving medal for 
rescuing a Belgian soldier who had 
fallen from the U. S. S. Lorraine, June 23 
last. The circumstances are described as 
follows: Immediately upon hearing the 
cry, "man overboard," Lieut. Shirk dived 
from the promenade deck of the Lorraine, 
a distance of thirty feet, and supported 
the soldier who had been stunned by his 
fall into the water. A swift tide was run- 
ning which carried both men a third of a 
mile from the Lorraine by the time a life- 
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ing this time the soldier twice released his 
hold upon the life preserver, which ne- 
cessitated Lieut. Shirk diving for him, 
and in doing this he was painfully struck 
by the man he was rescuing. He has now- 
returned home, reaching New York, 
Dec. 28. 
Also in service, Capt. G. Berry. 

1899 

Hartley W. Bartlett, Major, was in May 
transferred from Camp Devens to Fort 
McClellan as instructor in Machine Gun- 
nery. He is now at Camp Grant, Illinois. 

Stanley B. Hall, Capt., 301st Amm. 
Train, has been in oversea duty since July. 
About Christmas he had a leave of absence 
W'hich he spent on the Riviera. He is 
probably now with the Army of Oc- 
cupation. 

Arthur U. Pope has been in the Per- 
sonnel Branch, General Staff, in charge of 
instruction in use of the officers' rating 
scale. Earlier he was in the Adjutant 
General's Office, on the Committee of the 
Classification of Personnel in the Army. 
His present address is 485 Fifth Ave., 
N. Y. City. 

Also in service, Capt. H. E. Benedict. 

1900 

Chester S. Allen has been in France in 
construction work. He returned Feb. 13, 
just in time to speak at the Brown Univ. 
Boston dinner. 

Wilham H. Baker, Capt., Co. E, 104th 
Engineers, with A. E. F. in France. Re- 
ceived the injury of a broken rib and was 
for a time on temporary leave. He 
visited Paris, Nice, and many other places 
of interest in France. 

Everett S. Hartwell, who has been pro- 
moted to Capt., 103d Field Art., was 
ordered home after 11 months service in 
France to become an instructor in the 
School of Art. Fire, Fort Sill, Okla. He was 
in the Chateau Thierr>' offensive. Was 
finally discharged about the middle of Dec. 

Donald B. Logan arrived in France the 



last of Oct. 1917, as 2nd Lieut., Co. D, 
104th Infi, and was at first stationed in 
the Vosges. He was promoted to 1st 
Lieut. Jan. 1918, and on Nov. last was at 
general headquarters with A. E. F. on 
Gen. Pershing's staff. Is now Captain. 

Charles D. Morton entered military 
service Sept. 11, 1918. He is a Capt. 
of Eng., at Washington, D. C. Perm. 
Add., Hatfield, Mass. 

Also in service, I. M. Clark (France). 
1901 

Charles H. Hull, Capt., assigned as 
Adjt., 68th Reg. Heavy Art., has been 
in France since Aug. 

Rev. Kenneth C. MacArthur went to 
France in July with the 76th Div. as 
Chaplain. He remained at St. Amand 
with the Div. until Nov. 22, when, just 
as he was expecting orders to return 
home, he was sent to the Chaplain 
School at Chateau 'd Aux, La Loupe, 
Dept. Sarthe. He has the rank of 1st. 
Lieut. 

Robert E. O'Brien, enrolled here Jan- 
1899- June 1900, has been in Co. C, 33rd 
Eng., in France. Add., 31 Rice St., 
Marlboro, Mass. 

Burnett B. Wright, Capt., Chemical 
Warfare Service, has been appointed 
military officer in charge of the drill 
discipline and guard of the Development 
Div., Nela Park, Cleveland, Ohio. His 
work had previously been in the Ord- 
nance Laboratory, Cleveland. 

1902 

Roll of Honor, Lieut. Geortje L. How- 
ard, died in France from wounds, Aug. 
11, 1918. See page 21. 

Edward B. Blanchard returned from 
oversea service on a leave of absence 
early in the fall, and visited the Academy 
together with Guy B. Stevens, '03, in 
October. He received a commission as 
Capt. Oct. 24, and was placed in command 
of Co. M, 1st Gas Reg., stationed at 
Camp Sherman, Ohio. Expected to 
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George W. Fowler, Lieut., has been in 
charge of government warehouses at New 
York and Boston. 

Morris Hudnut entered the Remount 
Officers' Training School at Camp Joseph 
E. Johnston, Fla., in Oct., and was honor- 
ably discharged Nov. 23. 

Robert A. Scott has been government 
inspector in the Hardware and Metals 
Dept. for the State of New York. 

Franklin E. Shirk entered the O. T. C. 
at Fort Benj. Harrison, Indianapolis, 
May 14, 1917, was commissioned 2nd 
Lieut. Aug. 15. 1917, 1st Lieut. March 1.5, 
1918, and Capt. Sept. 5, 1918. His 
training had been continued in Camp 
Taylor, Louisville, Ky.,and in Camp Sher- 
man, Chillicothe, Ohio. On Sept. 26 he 
went overseas. He is in command of 
Co. D, 309th Motor Transport Co., with 
A. E. F. in France. 

Dana W. Wilber, Capt., Co. C,, 24th 
Eng., was at the first O. T. C, American 
Univ., Washington, D. C, entering May 
8, 1917. Received commission Jul}' 16, 
1917. Assigned, Sept. 4, 1917, to the 
26th Eng. Embarked for oversea service 
Feb. 16, 1918. Assigned to 1st Army, 
A. E. F., later to the 2nd Army, and was, 
Nov. 30, with the 3d Army, the Army of 
Occupation in Germany. Perm. Add., 
Garrison Hall, Garrison Street, Boston, 
Mass. 

Also in service, Lieut. Com. C.S.Graves. 

1903 

Raymond D. Clark has been made 
Sergt., and was Nov. 27 with the 34th 
Service Co., Signal Corps, A. E. F. Was 
about to receive a commission when the 
armistice was signed. 

J. Frank Doyle, Capt., continues his 
work with the Sanitary Corps, Surgeon 
General's Office, Washington, D. C. 

Lewis W. Everett was made 2nd Lieut. 
Sept. 20, 1908, retaining his connection 
with the Sixth Reg. Marines. Nov. 17, 
his division began its march from Beau- 
mont, which they had taken a few days 



previous to Nov. 11. Nov. 2.5 he was at 
Coblenz. 

Dr. Thomas Littlewood, Capt., was in 
Nov. continuing his ambulance work 
with Co. 303, 301st Sanitary Train, 
A. E. F. 

Roland W. Olmsted, enrolled here 
1899-1901, has been, since July 29, 1918, 
First Lieutenant Ordnance Corps, and is 
on the staff of the Chief of Ordnance, Ad- 
ministration Division, Safety and Pro- 
tection Branch, Washington, D. C. Add., 
Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Also in service, Lieut. F. F. Marshall 
(France) . 

1904 

Roll of Honor, Sergt. Ralph L. Cook, 
died from illness, Oct. 30, 1918. See 
page 21. 

Sidney P. Armsby, enrolled here in the 
fall of 1901, enlisted July 22, 1917, and was 
at first assigned to the Post Hospital at 
Fort Scriven, Ga. Was afterward at 
Fort Caswell, N. C, and Fort Monroe, 
Va., and on Apr. 17, 1918, was transferred 
to the Chemical Warfare Service, in 
which he was promoted to 2nd Lieut. 
Oct. 25, 1918. Is located in Washington, 
D; C, in the Research Division, in charge 
of construction, small scale mfg. sect. 
Perm. Add., Box 283, State College, Pa. 

Paul M. Filmer, Capt., Adjt. General's 
Dept., being considered an expert in the 
work of the War Department Corres- 
pondence File, was placed in charge of the 
Records Div. in Tours, France. His work 
at this important center was so efficient 
that he was transferred shortly before 
Christmas to St. Nazaire, the port from 
which many American soldiers embarked 
on their return. He is called Assistant 
Base Adjutant. 

G. Osmar Reynolds, Lieut., sailed across 
in July, and has been engaged in steel con- 
struction work at Issodun. Was about to 
be made Capt., Eng. Corps, when the 
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Edward ^l\ Springer was promoted to 
Capt., Oct. 13, 1918. His unit is the 21st 
Field Art., which now forms a part of the 
Army of Occupation. 

Also in service: Capt. J. L. Edwards 
(abroad), Lieut. C. E. Merrill, A. E. 
Roper. 

1905 

Roll of Honor, Sergt. Sumter Arnold, 
killed in battle, July 1, 1916. 

Harold B. Barton was made 2nd Lieut, 
of Art. on finishing the training course at 
Saumur, and was assigned for further 
instruction. 

George C. Bosson, enrolled here 1902- 
Dec. 1903, Lieut. U. S. Navy, was in the 
merchant marine when the war was de- 
clared, and volunteered for naval service. 
Was at first on the U. S. S. Old Colony, 
which was in Halifax harbor at the time 
of the disaster and was so disabled that 
she did not go across until May, 1918. 
After reaching England was transferred 
to the U. S. S. Hounatonic, and has been 
stationed at Naval Base 18, Scotland, 
ever since. Add., Reading, Mass. He is 
a younger brother of Eustis Bosson, '03. 

Vergne Chappell, Capt. 47th Coast 
Art., left on July 1, 1918 his assignment at 
Fort McKinley, Maine, and went to 
France. 

Charles M. French, 1st. Lieut, Co. I, 
34th Eng., A. E. F., \vas reported in 
Nov. from Givres, France. 

Merrill F. Hubbard was promoted 
Oct. 18, 1918, to 1st Lieut., continuing 
his work in the Quartermaster General's 
Office in Washington. He was dis- 
charged Nov. 30, 1918. 

Dr. Howard F. Kane, while in the Med. 
Corps of the 2nd Devonshire Reg., 
British Army, was taken prisoner at 
Chemin-des-Dames, May 27, 1918, and 
interned at Camp Rastatt, Baden, 
Germany. He was released and passed 
through Switzerland Nov. 29 on his way 
to France, where he joined his regiment. 
He holds a commission as Capt. in the 
U. S. Med. Corps. 



Frederic M. Seeger, Lieut., went to 
France in May, as officer in a contingent 
of colored Field Art. After training with 
French officers, he was given active work 
in the Information service, in the branch 
of directing artillery objectives. 

Also in service: Lieut. E. G Curtis 
(France), Lieut. L. J. Dibble, Capt. W. H. 
Gref, Lieut. S. C. Whipple. 
1906 

Roll of Honor: Marsom I. Buttfield, 
died in camp, Nov. 7, 1918; Lieut. Law- 
rence Cowing, died of illness at Bordeaux, 
France, Sept. 30, 1918. See page 22. 
Sergt. Carl B. Kruse, died of illness in 
Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct. 18, 1918. See 
page 22. 

A. Gilbert Bigelow on Dec. 3 retained 
his assignment as clerk, Co. B, Quarter- 
master Corps, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Warren G. Davis, 2nd Lieut., Genei'al 
Staff, was one of several officers selected 
to go to Europe and establish a system of 
auditing the accounts at the various 
army headquarters. Temp. Add., care 
of Office Chief Finance Officer, A. P. O. 
702, A. E. F., Paris, France. 

Luke C. Doyle was attached to the 1st 
Div., Sanitary Corps, April and May, 
1918, and was at the front near Cantigny 
as Reconnaisance and Liaison Officer at- 
tached to Ambulance Co. 12. In July 
and x\ug. was in the Chateau Thierry area 
at the Regulating Station. In the fall was 
with the 1st Army at the Argonne offen- 
sive, regulating the transportation by 
hospital trains of the wounded, gassed, 
and sick from the 1st Army. Will remain 
with the Army of Occupation until it 
returns to America. He has been pro- 
moted to Major. He was advanced the 
day before the armistice was signed, and 
one day after he had received his second 
citation for bravery under fire. 

Oliver B. Jacobs was promoted to Capt. 
in Sept. 1918. He remains in France in 
the Signal Corps at headquarters of the 
Service of Supplies. 

Raymond D. Jenks was appointed 1st 
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Gas Defense Div., Aug. 15, 1918, coming 
direct from civilian life. He has been on 
duty at 19 West 44th Street, N. Y. City. 

George W. Jones, 1st Lieut., has been 
commanding Batt. E, 102nd Field Art., 
with A. E. F. in France. This was former- 
ly captained by Major Frank W. Cava- 
naugh. Jones has been strongly recom- 
mended for a captaincy by Lieut. Col. 
Herbert, who writes of him : ' ' He has done 
very clever work since he took the bat- 
tery." 

Rev. John M. Maxwell was transferred 
Nov. 15, 1918, from the Holy wood Camp, 
British Y. M. C. A., to be leader of the 
Ballykinlar Camp, County Down, Ire- 
land. His permanent address is Castle- 
view Terr., Coleraine, County Derry, 
Ireland. His application for a chaplaincy 
in the American Army was about to be 
granted when the armistice was signed. 

Atkins Nickerson, Ens., after receiving 
special training on torpedoes, was as- 
signed as torpedo officer on the destroyer 
Aylwin patrolling in foreign waters. 

Osborne H. Shenstone, 2nd Lieut., 
Equipment Officer, Royal Air Force, has 
been transferred from Sheffield to 
Leeds, England. 

Also in service: Ens. J. C. Johnson, H. 
H. Snow. 

1907 

Roll of Honor, Lieut. Carl A. Dudley, 
killed in France, Sept. 15, 1918. Seepage 
21. 

David Chase, enrolled here 1905-6, 
was drafted Oct. 7, 1917, and trained at 
Camp Devens and in the O. T. S. at Camp 
T..ee, Va., attaining the grade of Sergt. of 
Inf. He has been discharged and has re- 
turned to his business of contracting and 
building at Millbury, Mass. 

Arthur C. Clark is receiving clerk, 
warehouse of Eastern Dept., Army 
Y. M.C.A., NewYorkCity. 

Otto V. Cole, 2nd Lieut., Ordnance 
Dep't., traveling continually buying for 
government iise black walnut lumber, 
has his headciuarters at Washington, D. C. 



Donald Greene, 1st Lieut., Co. F, 
306th Eng., sailed from his special training 
in concrete construction July 29, 1918. 
Landed in England, where he stayed about 
ten days; was then about three weeks at an 
instruction camp and then at the front, 
where he was stationed Nov. 9. 

Wright D. Heydon was inducted into 
the Art. and assigned for training Oct. 16 
to the 26th Batt., C. O. T. C, Camp 
Zachary Taylor. He was discharged 
Nov. 29, 1918. 

J. Russell King, Jr., called at the Acad- 
emy Nov. 16. He had completed a train- 
mg course at the Y. M. C. A. College, 
Springfield, Mass., and was about to sail 
for Russia, having enlisted for two j^ears' 
service there. Previous to his enlistment 
he had been Supt. of Bradstreet's Agency 
for Northern Montana. Perm. Add., 
619 Dearborn Avenue, Helena, Mont. 

Miar J. McLaughlin, 1st Lieut., has 
been Medical Officer for the 2nd Middle- 
sex Reg., British Army, and followed 
their front in the last drive in France. 

Roy H. Morrill, Sec. to U. S. Shipping 
Board Conmiissioner, has his permanent 
address at 204 Wardman Court, Washing- 
ton, D. C. 

Ralph P. Robinson, 2nd I^eut., is with 
the A. E. F. in France. 

Charles F. Watson, 2nd Lieut., after 
graduating from his training course at 
Waco, Tex., went overseas with the 92nd 
Aero Squadron, A. E. F., and served in 
England from Sept. to Dec. as a night 
bombing pilot. He was discharged Dec. 27. 

Harry L. Wiggin, 1st Lieut., was as- 
signed to Co. M, 347 Inf., July 27, 1918. 
Was overseas with the A. E. F. from 
Aug. 23 to Dec. 30. During his stay he 
was graduated from the Tactical School, 
2nd Corps, Chatillon-sur-Seine, France. 
He was discharged Jan. 10, 1919, and is 
now in Boston. 

Also in service: Lieut. L. C. Greenwood, 
Corp. P. J. Hungate, L. D. Jenkins 
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1908 

Roll of Honor, Lieut. H. Rockwood 
Knight, killed in France, April 12, 1918. 

Frederic B. Bond, 2nd Lieut., has been 
transferred from the Intelligence service 
in the Officers Res. Corps to the Tank 
Service, and has been detailed as Aide to 
Brig. Gen. Rockenbach, Chief of Amer- 
ican tanks. He was at the front as 
supply officer for the tanks during the 
last week of the war. Late in Dec. he 
was at Chaumont. 

Seth P. Carpenter, enrolled here in the 
fall of 1905 from Marlboro, is 2nd Lieut., 
Quartermaster Corps, and was in Dec. at 
Camp Joseph E. Johnston as Post Ex- 
change Officer. Add., 5 Arch St., Fra- 
mingham, Mass. 

Clarence W. Dow, Senior Inspector in 
the Aircraft Production Service, has been 
transferred from Pittsfield, and on Dec. 10 
was in charge of the production of aviation 
magnetos at the Sims Magneto Co. of 
East Orange, N. J., and also at the Heinze 
Electric Co. at Lowell, Mass. Perm. 
Add., 35 Queensbury Street, BostonjMass. 

Cornelius H. Evans, 3d., Ens., has been 
since May on U. S. Submarine Chaser 110 
in foreign service in English and Irish 
waters. 

George W. Forrester has been promoted 
to 1st Lieut., Aviation, and in Nov. was 
connected with the 801st Aero Squadron. 

Roswell E. Hall, 1st Lieut., has been in 
France since Oct. 1917, and at the front 
since Feb. 1918. He has been in the 
101st Amm. Train, serving as Adjt., and 
has been promoted to 1st Lieut, since the 
last Bulletin. Has been in the Soissons, 
Toul, Chateau Thierry, St. Mihiel, and 
Verdun sectors. 

Daniel F. Larkin, Ens., was attached to 
the U. S. S. Owena Aug. 23, 1918, and is 
serving as an Executive officer. 

Karl C. Mertz is a Lieut, in the U. S. 
Army. 

Walter P. Misch received the commis- 
sion of 1st Lieut. Oct. 30, 1918. He 



went overseas in Nov., having been for 
some months previously in the Army 
Transport Service at New York. 

Edward H. Smith, Corp., 248th Aero 
Squad., writes on Jan. 18 that he expects 
to leave for America within a week for 
immediate discharge. After arrival his 
address for a time is to be 502 No. Aurora 
St., Ithaca, N. Y. 

Henry E. Soule, Capt., 59th Amm. 
Train, Coast Art., was in Dec. at Fort 
Adams, Newport, R. I. He received his 
assignment for overseas about the middle 
of Oct., but the start was delayed, and he 
was still at Newport when the armistice 
was signed. He stayed with "his boys" 
at Thanksgiving instead of going to his 
home at Wickford nearby. 

Lew Wallace Springer, now 1st Lieut., 
has been on the Western Front in France 
in the 11th Aero Squadron, 1st Day 
Bombardment Group. 

Also in service: Capt. T. J. Campbell, 
G. E. Clifford, A. H. Gates (France), 
Lieut. T. R. Kane (France),E. D. Kendall 
(France), R. W. Sibley (France), Ens. 
C. F. Springall, T. C. Wheaton, Jr. 

1909 

Roll of Honor: Lieut. Charles R. Bull, 
died in camp, Oct. 11, 1918. See page 25. 
Paym. George A. Hunt, killed by accident 
at Philadelphia, Feb. 1, 1919. See page 26. 
Lieut. Errol D. Marsh, killed in France, 
Nov. 2, 1918. See page 26. Corp. Clifford 
J. Stevens, killed in France, Mar. 16, 1918. 

Nathan K. Atkins, enrolled here 1904- 
1906, was inducted into service April 27,. 
1918 and assigned to Camp Devens,Co. 7, 
2nd Bn. He was later assigned to .special 
duty in the Pay Card Department. Was 
discharged bj^ the demobilization act, then 
belonging to the 29th Co., 8th Bn. Pre- 
vious to this service he was for three years 
from July 24, 1913 a member of Troop A, 
1st Squad, of Cavalry, Mass. Nat. Guard. 
He has returned to his business, whole- 
saler of cut glass and lamps, 41 Pearl St., 
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Emile M. Bacharach, enrolled here 
1903-1908, enlisted at Chicago, 111, 1917, 
and trained at Fort Sheridan, 111., ob- 
taining the commission of a 2nd Lieut. 
Was mustered out of service and later 
drafted, training at Camp Upton, N. Y., 
and Camp Devens, going overseas July, 
1918. Is now in Co. I, 40th Eng., 76th 
Div. Add., 98 Gainsboro Street, Boston, 
Mass. Was discharged February 7. 

William Bray, enrolled here Jan. 1905- 
Dec. 1906, was drafted Oct. 5, 1917, after 
having been refused in both army and 
navy on account of his deafness, and 
trained at Camp Devens in the 76th Div. 
He is with the A. E. F. in France, a Corp. 
in the 301st Inf. Add., 210 Winthrop 
Road, Brookhne, Mass. 

Loring T. Carpenter, 1st Lieut., 136th 
Heavy Field Art., with A. E. F., Army of 
Occupation. 

Holden M. Clement, Sergt., Motor 
Machine Signal Corps, Co. 11, 2nd. Reg., 
was in the American Base Hospital No. 27 
in France with acute rheumatism for some 
timeafter Aug. 3; was reported imt)roving 
on Oct. 27. 

Albert B. Conant, 1st Lieut., 302nd 
Machine Gun Co., has been with the 
A. E. F. in France. 

CJharles C. Frederick, enrolled here 
1905-06, was drafted July 25, 191S. 
Was sent to Camp Lee, Va., to Cam]) 
Mein:s, Wash., and went overseas Sept. 29. 
He is in the Gas and Oil unit, and was in 
Paris through Dec, where he expects to 
remain a month or more. Add., 23 North 
LaiH'el St., Hazelton, Pa. 

E. Leeds Gulick,Jr., 2nd Lieut., Ameri- 
can Air Force, left the aviation cam]! at 
Park Field about July 1, 1918, and sailed 
for oversea service a few days later. He 
was two months near London at a large 
aviation camp for ground work, then went 
to France. Was considering staying for 
reconstruction work abroad if needed. 

Ernest T. Guyott was still, Dec. 2, at 
the Naval Militia Armory, 52nd St., 
Brooklvn, N. Y. 



Cyrus L. Mace, enrolled here 1905-06 
from Bates, N. Y., enlisted Sept. 17, 1917 
in the Quartermaster Corps. Remained 
five months in training at Madison Bar- 
racks, and sailed for France in February 
1917. Is a Sales Commissary, 3d Div., 
3d Army. Add., Richmond, Mass. 

James C. McDonald, 2nd Lieut., was 
transferred from Camp Devens to the 
Quartermaster General's Office at Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

George D. Melican, 2nd Lieut., has been 
a Bomber, 116th Aero Squadron, with 
A. E. F. in France. 

Allen G. Patton's address is now 2066 
East 77th Street, Cleveland, Ohio. 

Cole A. Porter was transferred from the 
American Aviation service in Paris to the 
Fren(;h army. Took a course of training 
of three months at the Field Art. School 
at Fontainebleau, received a commission 
as 2nd Lieut, in the French Army, and 
went to the front where he was, Oct. 27, 
serving in the 15th Art. Reg. 

E. Clifton Sherman entered service May 
31, 1918, in the Commissary Dept., and 
was called to active duty June 18. In 
Oct. he was acting commissary steward 
at the Naval Base, Fairhaven, Mass. 

Harry D. Stephens is in the Ordnance 
Dept. at the Colt's gun factory, Hart- 
ford, Conn. 

Dr. Lee F. Strickler, Caj^t., was still in 
Oct. at the Post Hospital, Fort Mcintosh, 
Laredo, Texas. 

John J. Tierney, Sergt., went overseas 
Oct. 19, 1917, in the Ordnance Corps; was 
stationed for a time at Paris and at Tours; 
and was in Dec. at a Tractor Art. Officers' 
School at Limoges, France. He was to 
have been commissioned Lieut. Nov. 20. 

Glen Underwood 2nd Lieut., after 
leaving Camp Joseph E. Johnston took 
short covu'ses at the Siu'vey School at 
Camp Meigs, \^'ashington, D. C, in the 
office of the Quartermaster General, and 
then about two months in the Salvage Div. 
at Camp Meade, Md. He has since been 
Assistant Salvage Officer at Camp Hola- 
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Gordon L. Willis, after attending the 
Plattsburg camp, was commissioned a 
1st Lieut., when the Mass. State Guard 
was organized, and was honorably dis- 
charged as Capt. of Co. G, 12th Reg., to 
enter the O. T. C. at Camp Lee. He has 
recently been discharged from this, and 
has been appointed cashier of the Third 
National Bank in Brooklyn, N. Y. He 
had previously been twelve j'sars with 
the Old Colony Trust Co. of Boston. 

C. Estes Wood has been with Ihe 
A. E. F. in London. 

Also in service: Ens. W. G. Brj'ant, 
Lieut. W. H. Cunliffe, Sergt. H. A. Vitz- 
simmons, Lieut. A. Y. Hodgdon (France), 
H. W. Hutchens (England), Ens. W. F. 
Roos, Lieut. K. A. Sanderson, Lieut. C. D. 
Snyder (France). 

1910 

Roll of Honor: Corp. Harold L. But- 
ton, died of wounds in France, Nov. 23, 
1919. See page 27. Merrill S. Gaunt, died 
April 3, 1916, in France. 

Arthur E. Bartlett graduated from a 
five months' course at Annapolis Feb. 1, 
1918, with rank of Ensign, and then took 
a four months' course at the Submarine 
School at New London, Conn. During 
June and July he was E.xecutive Officer 
on a U. S. submarine operating in the 
North Atlantic. Aug 1 he was ordered 
to the command on U. S. submarine H-6 
on the Pacific Coast: Nov. 1 he was 
awaiting orders at Manila, P. I. If war 
had continued they were to reach the war 
zone by way of the Suez Canal. 

Raymond G. Bartlett, 2nd Lieut., 
Field Art., went from Camp Jackson, S. C, 
to the Officers' School, Fort Sill, Okla., 
preparatory for oversea service. His 
course expired last Sept. He then 
awaited orders to be transferred. Has 
probably now been discharged. 

Lester A. Bill, Ensign, since his grad- 
uation from Annapolis has been an Officer 
on the U. S. S. De Kalb, formerly the 
German liner Prince Frederick Eitel. 

Robert H. Cannon has been discharged, 
and has resumed his work with the Norton 
Co., Worcester. 



W. De Witt Crampton, Jr., Capt., is 
Executive Officer to the Purchasing Agent 
of the U. S. Quartermaster Corps in Eng- 
land. He expects to remain in the service 
eight or ten months more, and will very 
likely seek a business position there 
afterwards. 

Harold E. Drake has been since shortly 
after the U. S. entered the war machine 
gun inspector at the Colt's factory, 
Hartford, Conn. 

John F. Dyer enlisted in Boston Jan. 9, 
1918, as a Cadet in the Air Service. He 
was called into service the later part of 
May and reported at Camp Dick, Dallas, 
Tex.. June 1. After training there for six 
wp(>ks he was sent to the Princeton 
Ground School. From here he was 
honorably discharged Sept. 28, 1918, 
seeking a transfer to Naval Aviation, but 
before he was accepted for this service the 
armistice was signed. Has since been 
engaged at the Standard Aircraft Corpora- 
tion, Elizabeth, N. J., making De Havi- 
land air i)lanes. 

William S. Johnson was discharged from 
the Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, N. H., 
in Oct., where he had been serving as 
an apprentice, and entered the Merchant 
Marine Service Nov. 2. This involved 
doing convoy duty between this country 
and Liverpool nnd Brest. Was dis- 
charged Jan. 23, and stopped at Worces- 
ter on his way home. He had with him 
the Croix de Guerre wliich his ambulance 
Company received in 191 (> in the Verdun 
sector. 

William R. Klingensniith, Major, Med. 
Corps, is (Dec. 10) the Post Surgeon at 
Fort de Lesseps, Panama Canal Zone. 

Lewis E. W. Lepper, enrolled here in 
the fall of 1908 from Marll-nro, Mass., 
has been in the band, 101st Kng , 2Gth 
Div., with the A. E. F. 

Eben C. Mann, Sergt., was ditnclied 
from the N. C. O. at Paris Island. >>.C. 
Aug. 19, and transferred to the Marine 
Barracks, Quantico, Va., to attend the 
O. T. C. there. He finished second in his 
section of Co. A, and was to be com- 
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on Dec. 2 that he has apphed for discharge 
in order to return to civiHan duties. 

Robert M. Sarde, 1st IJeut., Veterinary 
Corps, has been in France since June 20, 
1918. On arriving he was transferred to 
the 18th Field Art. He has been in com- 
mand of a field liospital, and has kept up 
with the southern advance and been at 
the front nine consecutive weeks. 

William E. Shea left his work in Cuba 
after the U. S. entered the war and re- 
turned home and enlisted in the service. 
When the armistice was signed he was in 
the Eng. O. T. C.,Camp A. A. Humphreys, 
Va. He has been discharged and has 
rejoined in Cuba his wife and his son, 
William, Jr., who had remained there with 
Mrs. Shea's parents. His address is 
Linea 130 A., Vedado, Havana, Cuba. 

Clarence M. Walcott, 1st Lieut. Inf., 
in Porto Rico, was assigned to Co. M, 
375th Regt., from May to Sept. 1918; 
from there to Headquarters, Camp Las 
Casas, P. R., as prison officer. Was 
mustered out of service Jan. 9, 1919, and 
returned to his old place with the Ameri- 
can Colonial Bank, San Juan. 

Also in service: R. C. Hopkins, Capt. 
G. E. Hubbard (England), D. J. Kelley, 
N. M. Kerr, Capt. L. A. Whitney. 

1911 

Roll of Honor, Arthur H. Webber, 
killed in an aeroplane accident at Fort 
W^orth, Tex., Apr. 16, 1918. 

Fred A. Abbott has received an Ensign's 
commission, and in Nov. was assigned 
to the Navy Dep't. in Washington, D. C. 

John B. Abbott, 2nd Lieut., Field Art., 
has been in the Railroad and Canal Ser- 
vice, 1st Army Corps, A. E. F., in France. 

William R. Adams, Sergt., was trans- 
ferred last Oct. to the 164th Inf., and has 
been assigned to the Insurance and 
Payroll Dep't. 

Arthur H. Barnes, Jr., enrolled here 
Jan. -June 1910, enlisted June, 1917, in the 
Aviation Corps, but was placed on the 
reserve list because he was a chemist in a 



munition plant. Various attempts to 
enlist in some combatant branch of the 
service were refused, and he was finally 
accepted as a chemist in the Ordnance 
Corps. Has been located at Washington, 
D. C, Lowell, Mass., Greene, R. I., and 
since Dec. 11 at Arlington, Va. Was 
made Sergt. July 11, 1918. Add., 32 
Crown St., Meriden, Conn. 

Robert L. Bronson, enrolled here 1909- 
10, is a Corporal, Co. C, 102nd Supply 
Train in France. He volunteered June, 
1917. Add., Winchester Center, Conn. 

George H. Chapman, Batt. B, 61st 
Art., with A. E. F. in France. During his 
second assignment at Fort Standish he 
qualified as a Ist-class mechanic, and went 
overseas Aug. 1. 

Roy C. Charron is 2nd Lieut., Chemi- 
cal Warfare Service, Research Div., 
American University, W^ashington, D. C. 

Rawson R. Co wen was reported re- 
cently a candidate for Field Art., 
C. O. T. C, Camp Zachary Taylor, Ky. 
He was at that time Chief Yeoman at the 
Factory Plant, Squantum, Mass. 

Freeman N. Dickinson has been made 
Sergt. in the Med. Corps, and was still in 
Dec. at the Base Hospital Detachment, 
Camp Devens. 

Herbert L. Frink was promoted to Capt. 
Aug. 24, 1918, and was with Co. D, 1st 
Development Bn., Camp Devens, Mass. 

Chauncey A. Galloupe, enrolled here 
1907-08, returned in Dec. from service 
abroad. He enlisted in April, 191 7,in Naval 
Aviation; trained at Squantum, Norfolk, 
Va., Pensacola, Fla., and then was sent 
to England. Has rank of Ens. Add., 
212 Ocean Street, Lynn, Mass. Attended 
Exeter after leaving Worcester. 

William E. Hallowell, Corp., Co. C, 
317th Field Signal Bn., went overseas from 
Camp Devens July 17, 1918. He has been 
at the front in telephone work and is now 
probably with the Army of Occupation. 
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Walter E. Hess has been jiromoted from 
Lieut, to Capt., and is in France with 
the 316th Field Art. 

Joseph D. Kilkenny has been com- 
missioned Ens. and assigned to the 
U. S. S. Aeolus engaged in transport 
service. 

Carroll W. Knowles, 1st Lieut., Eng. 
Corps, was in Dec. in charge of the Inland 
Waterways Transportation Dep't., Elysee 
Palace, Paris. He entered the service 
Sept. 1, 1917, and sailed for France Jan. 29, 
1918. Was detached from 116th Pioneer 
Eng. March 29 for canal duty. Home 
Add., 205 West 89th Street, N. Y. City. 

Andrew B. McClary, 1st Lieut., Field 
Art., went to France the last of June, 1918, 
with the A. E. F. 

Albert E. McClellan was promoted to 
Sergt. Nov. 1, 1918. He was Post- 
master at Camp Dix, and has continued 
this duty .since arriving in France last 
summer. In Dec. he was at U. S. Base 
Hospital 44, Pougues-les-Eaux, Nievre, 
France. Was about to be commissioned 
when the armistice was signed. 

Karl A. Mohr, 2nd Lieut., 317th Field 
Art., 81st Div., has been in France since 
June, 1918. 

Harold T. Morse, enrolled here 1909- 
10, was drafted Feb. 25, 1918, and was at 
Camp Devens in the 15th Inf; has now 
been discharged. Add., Mattapoisett, 
Mass. 

John Meylert Mullin was discharged 
from naval aviation in June on account of 
defective vision, and was assigned to the 
Bethleham Steel Co. He was sent by 
them to San Fransisco, Cal. Has more re- 
cently been made General Manager of the 
Slingerlands Printing Co. Add., Slinger- 
lands, N. Y. 

C. Harold Renfro was promoted to 1st 
Lieut, about Aug. 1, 1918. He is in the 
Eng. Corps, Tech. Engineer Design and 
Procurement Div. Was transferred from 
the General Electric Co., Schenectady, in 
Aug., to the plant of the Sperry Gyro- 
scope Co., Manhattan Bridge Plaza, 



Brooklyn, N. 
Washington. 



Y. Is probably now in 



John J. Skahill, enrolled here 1909-10, 
enlisted April 16, 1917, in Naval Aviation, 
and after training at Pensacola went to 
Paris. He was reported in Dec. at the 
V. S. Air Station at Moutchic, Gironde, 
France. Add., Medway, Mass. 

H. Ross Stevenson was in Dec. assisting 
in the organization of a band and orchestra 
at the hospital in a convalescent camp in 
France. He has been in the band of the 
325th Inf. His eyes and throat have been 
seriously affected by the strain of war. 
Home Add., 144 West Lincoln Ave., 
Mount Vernon, N. Y. 

Vernon P. Woodbury, after being made 
Sergt., was chosen as one of three from the 
30th Eng. to receive instruction in the 
manufacture and use of gas shells. Was 
then promoted to 2nd Lieut, in the Chem- 
ical Warfare Service. He sailed overseas 
about Oct. 17, in charge of the first cargo 
of gas shells sent across on a freighter, and 
arrived in France about Nov. 11. 

Also in service: F. A. Bull (France), 
Ens. H.B. Carpenter, Dr.J.H. Jaffar, J.M. 
Killeen (France), E. V. Montague, Lieut. 
R. L. Pullen (France), K. T. Royal, Lieut. 
P. S. Smith, Dr. W. E. Wade, F. H. 
Williams. 

1912 

Roll of Honor, Frank E. Starrett, killed 
in France in an aeroplane accident, 
Jan. 3, 1918. 

Robert E. Adams, now Corp., Co. A, 
29th Eng., was most of the summer in the 
Chateau Thierry region laying out artil- 
lery ranges. Was later with American 
troops in the Southern section. 

James C. Ashley, Corp., will probably 
remain sometime longer in France, with 
the 308th Field Art. 

William T. Burns was discharged from 
the Med. Corps Nov. 20, 1917, and has 
since been in the office of the Robins 
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Thomas P. Cheney, 2nd Lieut., Coast 
Art., was Dec. 1 at Fort Stark, N. H. 
He had been Adjt. of the 60th Amm. Train 
since its organization. He expected dis- 
charge soon and was to resume the 
practice of law. 

CarUsle E. Choate, enrolled here Jan. 
1909-June 1910, from Southboro, Mass., 
entered the U. S. Cavalry and went to 
the border at the time of the trouble with 
Mexico. He afterwards went to France 
with the 26th Div. as a sergeant. He 
transferred to the Tank Service, being 
reduced to corporal in order to drive a 
tank. Was slightly wounded and gassed 
but is all right now. His unit is Co. B, 
302nd Tank Centre. 

N. Sherwood Clark, Jr., enrolled here 
1908-09 from East Orange, N. J., en- 
listed in the U. S. Marines Apr. 1917. 
Trained at Paris Island, S. C, Dover, 
N. J., and the Brooklyn Navy Yard. 
Went to France, being for a time at 
Brest, but has now returned and is a 
corporal at the 22nd. Reg. Armory. Add., 
6744 Lakewood Ave., Chicago, III. 

George H. Crosby, Jr., enrolled liere 
1908-10 from Duluth, Minn., is 2nd 
Lieut., Coast Art. He enlisted Aug. 21, 
1918, trained at Fort Howard and later at 
Fort Monroe, Va., and received his com- 
mission Dec. 6. Has since been discharged 
and placed on the Reserve List. Add., 
Hickory Lodge, Crosby, Minn. 

Ralph LT. Cross was promoted to 1st 
Lieut., Qmst. Corps, Aug. 24, and has l^een 
in the Production Dep't, Construction 
Div., at Washington, D. C. He returned 
home in Jan., and is now associated with 
his father in the E.J. Cross Co., Worcester. 

Robert N. Finlay, enrolled here Jan.- 
June 1910, entered the naval service as a 
seaman in November, 1917. He took the 
ensign's examination and passed, and was 
assigned to the Pelham Bay School, where 
he received his commission in July. He 
was later assigned to the U. S. S. Louisville. 
Add., 272 Congress Street, Boston, Mass. 



Raphael R. Fitzsimmons has been pro- 
moted to 2nd Lieut., and was in Dec. at 
Camp Taylor, in the Field Art. 

Ellsworth A. Frazee returned Dec. 7 to 
inactive duty from the experimental naval 
station at New London, Conn. 

Harold B. Giles, enrolled here in the 
fall of 1911, after a course in the Went- 
worth Institute and later at Mineola, L. I.. 
sailed for France, July 1918, in Co. G, 
315th Amm. Train. Add., 2043 Com- 
monwealth Ave., Auburndale, Mass. 

Troy Kaichen, 1st Lieut., 134th Field 
Art., was in Dec. somewhere in the Rhine 
sector, serving as Regimental Gas and 
Munitions Officer. 

Clement E. Kennedy, 2nd Lieut., 9th 
Aero Squad., is in the Army of Occupation. 
He was at the front four continuous months 
including the St. Mihiel drive and the 
battle of the Argonne Forest. He reached 
Luxembourg for his Thanksgiving dinner, 
and remarks that he is now making his 
second lingual transition, that of French to 
German, and to illustrate his success in 
this writes, " Es geht mir ganz gut and ires 
hon. " 

Philip M. Libby was in Sept. in France 
with S. S. U. 607. 

W. Sever Lincoln was promoted to 
Capt. last June while on a furlough home 
from France. Is now with the Hdq. Co., 
471st Field Art., at Fort Kearney, Cal. 

Edward W. Macy, Major of Inf., has 
left the Hill School, and from July to 
Oct. 1918 was Senior Musketry Instruc- 
tor and Battalion Commander at the 
Junior Plattsbiu-g Camp. Afterwards he 
was on duty with the American Red Cross 
at Camp Dix, N. J. 

James E. Masterson, 2nd Lieut., 62nd 
Field Art., Veterinary Corps, was assigned 
to Camp Greenleaf, Ga., July 20, 1918, 
and transferred to Camp Jackson, Colum- 
bia, S. C, Oct. 6. 

John B. McAuliffe, who had been In- 
structor of Gunnery at the M. I. T. Avia- 
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Dec. 1. He was prominent in the foot- 
ball work of the Naval Headquarters men. 
Home Add., 66 Fruit Street, Worcester, 
Mass. He has resumed position with an 
accounting firm in Pittsburgh, Pa. 

Harry S. Middendorf, 1st Lieut., ;ilOth 
Field Art., after arrival in France was 
acting Adjt. of his regiment; was later re- 
turned to Co. A of the 3I0th, and after- 
wards was sent to Tours to take up instruc- 
tion in aeronautics. 

J. William Middendorf, Jr., 1st Lieut, in 
France, has been assistant Adjt. of his 
Brigade. Was at the front about Aug. 
and was later transferred to Tours for 
aeronautic work where he made a very 
successful record. 

Earle C. Moss is in the 37th Coast Art., 
Ordnance Dep't., with A. E. F. in France. 

L. S. Owen, Jr., has l)een Sergt. in the 
Tank Corps. Now discharged. 

Carroll E. Pierce, Amb. Co. No. 30, 
5th Div., has been in the big drives, and is 
now with the Army of Communication. 
Jan. 11, he was at Montfort. Had the 
influenza in Nov., but has fully recovered. 

Sylvester S. Pierce received an Ensign's 
commission Oct. 1, on leaving the Cloy ne 
Sch. at Newport, R. I. He was trans- 
ferred to its submarine base at New 
London, Ct., for training in anti-subma- 
rine tactics. From there to Annapolis as 
executive officer on S-C 230. Detailed 
Dec. 5 to U. S. S. Vego, doing convoy duty 
on the Atlantic Coast with shore base at 
Pensacola, Fla. Visited Academy on a 
ten day leave early in February. 

John W. Pilling, enrolled at Worcester 
1908-11, enlisted May 28, 1918, and was 
assigned to the Wentworth Institute in 
Boston. Trained later at Camp Joseph 
E. Johnston, and at Camp Merritt at 
Newark, N. J. Went from there to 
France in the 520th Motor Truck Co., 
Qmst. Dep't. Add., 217 Wilder St., 
Lowell, Mass. 

Murray J. Quinn, Top Sergt., Qmst. 
Corps, has been in France about nine 
months with the A. E. F. 



W. Earle Shumway has been promoted 
to Lieut., and was in the 7th Field Art. 
Transferred from Camp Taylor to Camp 
Jackson, Columbia, S. C. Was dis- 
charged Dec. 9, and is now with the 
Norton Co., Worcester, in their me- 
chanical laboratory. 

Robert H. Stewart enlisted in the 
Naval Corps about the middle of June 
and was called to service Aug. 17, being 
assigned to the Naval Aviation Train- 
ing Station at Gulfport, Miss., as machin- 
ist's mate. Was in the hospital in the 
early fall for five weeks with infiuenza and 
pneumonia. Has probably now been dis- 
charged. Has fully recovered from his 
illness. 

Francis V. Streeter, Jr., enrolled here 
1908-09, entered the U. S. Ambulance 
Service Oct. 19, 1917. After training at 
Allentown, Pa., and Tobyhanna, Pa., he 
sailed for P'rance Dec. 25, 1917. From 
Mar. to Oct. 1918 was on active duty at 
the front with the French Army. Was 
later transferred to the American division, 
and in Dec. was engaged in carrying 
supplies and tools to the returning 
population of the devasted area of Belgium. 
He is married. Add., 12 Pearl St., 
Medford, Mass. 

Clinton J. Underwood, Sergt. Major, 
12th Div., Inf., was at Camp Devens dur- 
ing the fall. His division was to sail for 
France in a few days when the armistice 
was signed. He was in the Bureau of 
War Insurance, Allotments and Dis- 
charges. 

Elliott H. Wandel, enrolled here 1909- 
10, has been in military service, with brief 
intermissions, since May 25, 1914, when 
he enlisted in the Cavalry of the New 
York State Guard. Was mustered into 
federal service and went to the Mexican 
border in the summer of 1916. When his 
enlistment of three years had expired, he 
entered into federal service but was soon 
discharged on account of dependent 
relatives. Re-enlisted soon after but was 
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the Navy. In Dec. wa.s on active duty in 
the Public Works Dept., New London, 
Conn., with the rank of Boatswain's Mate, 
2nd CI. Add., 488 Nostrand Ave., 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 

John C. Ward, enrolled in the fall of 
1910, is 1st Lieut, in the Medical Corps at 
Camp Greenleaf, Ga. Add., 116 West 
Main St., Marlboro, Ma.ss. 

Also in service: Sergt. J. L. Calnan 
(France). R. L. Craighead (France), Lieut. 
J. K. Fenno, G. C. Gould (Scotland),, 
Lieut. L. Little (France), H. H. Lyons, 
Lieut. O. L. Mahlman, Lieut. L. L. May 
(France), Corp. J. A. Ryrie, S. W. Wells 
(France) . 

1913 

Roll of Honor, Sergt. PaulH. Knowles, 
died of pneumonia in France Nov. 15, 
1918. See page 27. 

Donald M. Allen, 2nd Lieut., Company 
I, 302nd Inf., was first assigned overseas 
in assisting the engineers in construction 
work at Bordeaux. Then after some 
weeks at St. Amand in the North, was 
detailed as Battalion Grenade Instructor 
at La Valbonne, Ain, France, where he 
remained November 29th, 1918. 

Harry G. Anderson, Lieut., U. S. N., 
remains on the destroyer Lainson. Was 
promoted to Lieut. Aug. 15. 

James W. Anderson, Capt., Coast Art., 
was put in command Sept. 1 of the first 
mine company of Narragansett Bay, 
being in charge of all submarine work 
there with headquarters at Fort Greble. 

Thomas Ash, Jr., 1st Lieut., 139th Aero 
Squadron, was transferred Nov. 1 from 
the observation service to a fighting plane, 
flying alone in a "Spad." He brought 
down his first German plane a few days 
later, on the German front. 

William B. Banister, enrolled here 1909- 
10, enlisted in American Field Service and 
sailed for France Aug. 7, 1917. In Oct. 
1917, when the LTnited States took over 
the ambulance service, he enlisted in the 
Qmst. Corps, and was in Dec. at Nevers, 



France. Add., 42 Fruit St., Worcester, 
Mass. 

Roberts Blount has been promoted to 
1st Lieut, of Eng. He is with the 165th 
Reg. on transportation work, and was 
located recently at Toul, France. 

Raymond J. Boyce's work in the Med- 
ical Res. Corps at Fort McHenry is the 
electrical treatment of cases of shell shock. 
He expects to remain there until 1920. 
Add., General Hospital No. 2, Fort 
McHenry, Md. 

Ralph A. Brennan has been with the 
A. E. F. in France in the Field Art. Is 
probably back home. Before he entered 
service he was for a time assistant super- 
intendent of a mill at Sunapee, N. H., the 
Pennacook Mills, where he had formerly 
been superintendent, having been taken 
over by the Government. 

James M. Burke, enrolled here 1910-11, 
enlisted in the Naval Aviation service at 
Lshpenning, Mich., Dec. 12, 1917. 
Trained at Great Lakes Training Station, 
M. I. T. Training School, Akron, Ohio, 
and Rockaway, L. I. Qualified as Kite 
Balloon Pilot and commissioned as Ens. 
Sept. 12, 1918. Was in Dec. at Rockaway 
Beach. Add., 9 Cedar St., Wakefield, 
Mass. 

Malcolm W. Burnham, Co. A, 301st 
Amm. Train, went overseas about mid- 
summer and after a short stay in England 
was detailed to the Service of Supply, 
with headquarters near St. Amand. A 
younger brother, Edward, .not a W. A. 
boy, was killed in service in France last 
October. 

J. Edward Burns, Ens., U. S. N., was 
released from service Dec. 24. 

Ronald P. Burrage, 1st. Lieut., Co. 2, 
4th Prov. Inf., entered the third Officers' 
Training Corps at Camp Devens about 
Jan. 1, 1918, from which he was graduated 
a 2nd Lieut. Since then he has been suc- 
cessively at Camp Lee, Camp Jackson, and 
since Sept. at Camp Sevier, Greenville, 
S. C. He called at the Academy Jan. 17. 
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vice in 1916 on the Mexican border, with 
1st. Vt. Inf. Perm. Add., Box 333, 
Leominster, Mass. 

William R. Caldwell, Co. H, 74th Inf., 
stationed at Camp Devens, was ill from 
influenza several weeks this fall. 

Richard B. Carter, Capt., was trans- 
ferred Aug. 31 from the Qmst. Corps and 
made Transport Corps Officer of Camp 
Dix, and put on the Commanding Gen- 
eral's staff. He has i)robably gone 
overseas. 

Harold F. Cobleigh, enrolled here 1912 
from Templeton, Mass., was in Detroit, 
Mich., with the Maxwell Motor Co. at the 
time war was declared. When the Lin- 
coln Motor Company was formed to make 
Liberty motors he received a position, and 
was later made assistant to the foreman. 
His department has rendered very val- 
uable service. Add., 216 Greenfield Ave- 
nue, Detroit, Mich. 

Samuel H. Colton, 1st Lieut., Aviation, 
cabled home recently that he expects to 
arrive in the States about Feb. 15. He 
has been attached to the 1st Pursuit Squad 
of the 47th unit, and has two German 
planes to his official credit. He probably 
brought down several others but it was 
impossible to secure detailed proof. He 
was for the last six weeks of the war with 
the American troops in the Argonne 
region. 

Norman D. Cota, now a Major, is 
Instructor of Tactics at the \J. S. Military 
Academy, West Point, N. Y. 

Alson B. Edgerton, Sergt., Ordnance, 
is in the 5th Division with the A. E. F. in 
France. 

Thomas H. Enwright, Jr., Ens. U. S. N., 
after graduation in June from the Har- 
vard Ensign School was assigned to 
U. S. S. Henderson for oversea duty. 
Received a latter of commendation from 
Sec. Daniels for his conduct when his ship 
caught fire at sea. Was later assigned to 
a course in gunnery at Washington. 

Arthur H. Evans, 2nd Lieut., Aviation, 
received his commission at Chanute 



Field, Rantoul, 111., July 11, with the 
title of Pursuit Pilot. He has been lo- 
cated at Payne Field, West Point, Miss. 

Augustus P. Farnsworth, 2nd Lieut., 
after graduating at Gerstner Field and 
after advanced training at Taliaferro 
Field, was sent overseas in September on 
special business, going to Glasgow, 
London, and Paris. On Oct. 5th he was 
sent to 3d Aviation Instruction Center 
and was instructor there Nov. 11th. 

Ralph W. Fearing, 2nd Lieut., Co. B, 
127 Inf., went overseas in April. Was 
soon promoted to Sergt. and in Aug. 
received present commission. He partici- 
pated in a number of battles, and early 
in Oct. received three machine gun bullet 
wounds, but no bones were injured. Was 
later removed from base hospital to a 
convalescent hos]iital on the Mediter- 
ranean Coast, where he w^as reported Nov. 
11 doing well. 

Harold D. Finley, Capt., 23d Field Art., 
went overseas in June. Was promoted to 
captaincy for saving four comrades. He 
writes in early December as being freshly 
equipped for the march into Germany. 

Irving S. Fitz, 104th Inf., is with the 
26th Division. 

Neslen K. Forster, enrolled here 1911- 
12, enlisted in the Med. Res. Corps 
Jan. 19, 1918, and was placed on inactive 
duty to complete medical education. He 
received his medical diploma June, 1919. 
Called to active duty and transferred to 
S. A. T. C. Nov. 9; discharged Dec. 9 as 
Top Sergt. Is now at the Univ. of Illinois 
College of Medicine, Chicago, 111. Temp. 
Add., 1515 West Monroe Street, Chicago, 
111. Home Add., Westminster Apts., 
Spokane, Wash. 

Robert H. Foster, 104th Inf., 26th 
Div., was located early in November at 
Dammartin, in the Haute-Marne depart- 
ment. He writes, "Have just got located 
here having hiked it all the way from 
Verdun, that is all but yesterday when the 
army made a great mistake and furnished 
trucks for the infantry to ride in. We left 
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Leon S. Griswold, enrolled here 1911-12, 
on being drafted was sent to Fort Monroe, 
Va. Was all equipped to be sent to 
Russia Nov. 15, 1918, but orders were 
changed and he was at Camp Upton for a 
month in Batt. F., 41st R. R. Art., being 
discharged Dec. 17. Add., Wethersfield, 
Conn. 

John H. Halfpenny, 1st Lieut., was still 
with Co. B, 302nd Reg. of Engineers, 
77th Div., when the armistice was signed. 

James A. Hill, enrolled here 1909-12, 
was drafted May 21, 1918, and was at 
Camp Devens with Co. G, 2nd Brig., 
doing clerical work until his discharge 
Dec. 9. Add., Center and Montello Sts., 
Brockton, Mass. 

William S. Howell, enrolled here 1909- 
10, graduated from the short course at 
Annapolis June 15, 1918, having entered 
the Naval Reserve as a seaman and having 
been commissioned Ens. In Dec. was on 
U. S. S. Pastores. Add., 412 Morris Ave., 
Boonton, N. J. 

Francis F. Kellogg, 2nd Lieut., is con- 
valescing near Aix-Les-Bains from a 
serious illness caused from exposure while 
in active service. 

Horton P. Kennedy, 1st Lieut., was 
detailed as Adj. to the Major in command 
of a Motor Transport School at Decize, 
Dept. Nievre, France, being promoted to 
1st. Lieut, shortly after. This school in 
Oct. had over 500 students. A letter 
dated Nov. 4 states that he is well and 
very busy. 

A. Hey wood Knowlton, who had been 
elected to the Worcester Academy faculty, 
was drafted Aug. 28 and assigned to Co. K, 
4th Prov. Reg., Camp Jackson, kS. C. Was 
later transferred to the Psychological 
Board, Personnel Detachment, Camp 
Sevier, S. C. 

Gordon C. Krumme, enrolled here 1911- 
12, entered Camp Humphreys, Va. as a 
private, was promoted to Corj). and trans- 
ferred to Camp Dodge, Iowa, where he 
was in Dec, in Co. B, 219th Eng. Add., 
1733 I'^ni versify Ave., N. Y. City. 



Earl C. Lyon, enrolled here 1910-11, 
entered service Dec. 28, 1917, and has 
been in the S. A. T. C, Hahnemann 
Med. Coll., Philadelphia, with rank of 
Corporal. Released into Med. Res. Corps 
Dec. 14, 1918. Add., 716 Atlantic Ave., 
Atlantic City, N. J. 

Rodney D. Marks, enrolled here Sept. 
1908-March 1910, entered service Sept. 
21, 1917, at Camp Devens, Mass., and has 
been in France with Batt. A, 301st 
Field Art. Add., 11 Palmer St., Arling- 
ton, Mass. 

James P. Murphy has been for seven 
months in the Med. Corps, located at 
General Hospital No. 5, Fort Ontario, 
Oswego, N. Y. 

Carleton M. Pike, Lieut, in the Naval 
Res., was released from active service 
Dec. 17, 1918, and is temporarily at the 
Hotel Puritan, Boston. 

Lawrence J. Raymond, enrolled here 
1911-12, entered a forestry unit under the 
English government Dec. 6, 1917. Was 
transferred to the 31st Co., 20th Eng., 
June 15, 1918., and was in Dec. at Cou- 
leuvre, France. Add., 1403 Main Street, 
Athol, Mass. 

William A. Reynolds, Ensign, Naval 
Res., is assigned to Engineering duties. 
His term of enlistment expires June 1, 
1921. 

John C. Roberts enlisted Apr. 30, 1918, 
and trained at Camp Hancock, Ga. and 
later at Camp Dodge, Iowa, where he was 
in Dec. as First Sergt. in the 113th Ord- 
nance Depot Co. Add., 304 Union St., 
Springfield, Mass. 

Paul T. Rothwell, Capt., enrolled here 
Sept. 1909-Dec. 1911, was in training 
camps at the I'niv. of Wisconsin, at Fort 
Sheridan, and then at Camp Zachary 
Taylor, Louisville, Ky., in the 336th Inf. 
Was then in the training detachment at 
the Univ. of Pittsburgh, and early this 
fall was commanding officer of the 
S. A. T. C. at the Worcester Polytechnic 
Institute. More recently he has been 
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District, Boston, Mass. Has recently 
been promoted to Ca])tain. Add., Care 
Bernard J. Rothwell, 60S Chamber of 
Commerce, Boston, Mass. 

Frank D. Shea of the Naval Res., 
connected formerly, at least, with the 
Charlestown Navy Yard, was one of the 
prominent football men this past fall in the 
eleven of the 1st Naval District. 

Dean S. Sibley, Ens. Naval Aviation, 
has been in charge of a propeller manu- 
factury in Jamestown, N. Y., serving also 
as assistant on experimental motor work. 

Frederick S. Stallknecht has been 
promoted to Sergt., and is in the Trans- 
portation Corps with the 19th Reg., 
lately located at St. Pierre de Corps, 
near Tours, France. 

A. Henley Sturgess, Ens., U. S. N., 
received commission Sept. 18, 1918. Was 
attached to U.S. S. Georqia as Assistant 
Navigator, the ship doing convoy service. 
Detached from the (korgia, Dec. 15; 
resigned from Navy, Dec. 16. 

Robert W. Thompson, enrolled here 
1910-12 from North Adams, Mass., en- 
listed in Nov. 1917; has been at Fort 
Slocum, Washington Barracks, Camp 
Belvoir, Va., Camp Lee, and since Oct. 26 
at Camp Wadsworth, S. C, in Co. F, 
60th Inf. Was promoted to Corp., to 
Sergt., and finally to Lieut., Oct 15. 

Walter I. Tibbetts, 2nd. Lieut., Re- 
serve Corps., Field Art., graduated from 
the Field Art. Officers' Training School, 
Camp Zachary Taylor, Ky., with his 
present commission. Has since been 
honorably discharged and placed in the 
Reserve Corps. Is secretary in the Phillips 
Brooks house at Harvard. Perm. Add., 
84 Prescott St., Cambridge, Mass. 

John S. Young, 1st. Lieut., 90th Aero 
Squad., has been at the front in active 
service with the First American Army 
since June 10. He retm-ned home about 
February 1. 

Also in service: H. A. Batchelor 
(abroad), Capt. A. S. Dillon (France), 
L. C. Elterich, A. V. Gustafson, Lieut. 



E. M. Jacques, Lieut. P. W. Jenckes 
(France), Ens. R. V. Lowe, Lieut. C. P. 
Rice, Lieut. W. B. Strong. 

1914 

Albert L. Allen, enrolled here 1909-10, 
enlisted June 1st, 1917, and was sent first 
to Syracuse, N. Y. He then was in train- 
ing at Pine Point, Me., and Camp Merritt, 
N. J., and went to France in Dec, 1917, a 
member of Co. B, 15th Field Art. His 
division is understood to be in Luxem- 
bourg. Home Add., Beechwood, Me. 

Roy J. W. Ashey, Corp., went overseas 
in July with the 301st Amm. Train, Co. D. 
He was at Bourges, France, Dec. 10. 

Roger Batchelder has been at the 
O. T. C, Camp Lee, Va., .since Sept. 10. 
Received commission as 2nd Lieut. Jan. 14. 
He has been discharged, and has accepted 
a position on the staff of the New York 
World. 

Raymond P. Bentley, Lieut., Naval 
Aux. Res., after serving six months as 
navigator on U. S. S. Passaic was trans- 
ferred to shore duty. Has been promoted 
to Lieut. Perm. Add., 434 West 120th St., 
N. Y. City. 

Frank H. Brackett is Sergt., Hdq. Co., 
60oth Eng., with A. E. F. in France. 
Transferred from Camp Lee to Camp 
Forrest, Ga., in Jul3^ Promoted to Sergt. 
and recommended for Top Sergt. before 
leaving Camp Forrest in Sept. for over- 
•sea service. 

Edward C. Bridgman, 1st Lieut., 
Royal Air Force, has been Acting Adj. at 
the School of Special Flying, Armour 
Heights, Toronto, Canada. Perm. Add., 
8 Park Place, Pelham, N. Y. 

Clarence L. Brownell, enrolled here 
1912-13, was drafted and mustered into 
service July 29, 1918, at Fall River, Mass. 
He was sent first to the Recruit Camp at 
Syracuse, N. Y., and on Aug. 6 was as- 
signed for military police duty to Camp 
Mills, L. I. He had influenza which de- 
veloped into lobar pneumonia and con- 
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Qmst. Corps, Military Police, Co. 330. 
Perm. Add., 555 Hanover Street, Fall 
River, Mass. 

William S. Calkins, 1st. Lieut., has been 
transferred from the French Aviation 
Service to the American. 

Guy E. Cogswell, Ens., Naval Res., 
was detached from U. S. S. New Jersey, 
May 28, and ordered to San Franscico, 
Cal., for duty on the destroyer Robini^on. 

Ralph I. Coombs, student at W. A. 
1912-13, enlisted Jan. 14, 1918, and was 
called to service June 8. Was at the 
M. I. T. Aviation School and was trans- 
ferred Aug. 8 to the St. Paul Aero-Motor 
School, where he has been since, a member 
of Co. K, 1st Reg., Aviation Corps. 

David Crowell, Ens., U. S. Navy, after 
graduating at the Harvard Ensign School 
in June served on the Transport Tenadores, 
carrying troops between Newport News 
and Brest. Was transferred about Nov. 
1 to the locks at the Sault St. Marie Canal. 

George F. Crum, Sergt., Hdq. De- 
tachment, 116th Eng., remains at St. 
Aignan-Noyers, Dept. Loire-et-Cher, his 
work being purchasing material and 
interpreting. Promoted to Sergt., 1st 
class. Has met Philip Morgan in Paris. 

Wallace R. Crumb, a student here 
1910-12, is an Ens. assigned as Instructor, 
Office-Material School, Mare Island, Cal. 
He trained at Newport and at Annapolis, 
and was three months in submarine 
waters with the U. S. S. Kentucky. Add., 
Garden St., Forestville, Conn. 

Max D. Currier, a student here in the 
year 1911-12 from Mechanicsville, N. Y., 
is a torpedo gunner's mate on the U. S. S. 
Seattle. He has been doing continuous 
convoy duty for the past 15 months, 
making 8 round trips across besides some 
foreign service. Add., R. F. D. 3, 
Ballston Spa, New York. 

Henry V. Dexter was promoted to Capt. 
in Oct. and has been in coinmand of the 
16th Machine Gun Bn., 6th Div., in 
France. He was in the Argonne-Meuse 



drive, and was "in at the killing." Had 
reached Sedan the day the armistice was 
signed. His division was then sent to the 
central part of France to rest and recuper- 
ate. His father, Dr. Edwin G. Dexter, 
'87, abroad in the Red Cross service, ex- 
pected to spend Christmas with him in 
Paris. 

Tracy C. Dickson, Jr., Capt., Coast Art., 
is in command of 11th Anti-Aircraft 
Battery, with A. E. F. in France. 

Kenneth C. Dowley, Prov. Co. B, 
Convois Autos, with A. E. F. in France. 
Was in the forces which stopped the 
German drive between Soissons and 
Rheims, and also in the first counter at- 
tack with the allies which started the big 
retreat. After second drive, was sent 
away on permission, but was back on 
duty the last month of the fighting. 

John R. Draper, Corp., Co. B, 101st 
Amm. Train, with A. E. F. in France, is 
probably now with Army of Occupation. 
He writes Nov. 12: "It's a grand and 
glorious feeling," to think the game is 
over and we maj^ be back in the U. S. in a 
year or two. Here in the woods we stood 
in the deep mud for over an hour and 
fairly boiled over with enthusiasm and 
pride while the colonel told what the 
26th had done and must do." 

Wilfred A. Eaton is Sergt., Co. A, 107th 
Amm. Train, with A. E. F. in France. 
Graduated from the Franklin Union 
Training Detachment at Boston, June 15, 
standing 100% in everything. Sent from 
there to Camp Jackson, S. C, and made 
Sergt. July 1st; sailed overseas the last 
of July, being then in the 25th Field Art., 
but was soon after transferred to the 5th 
Field Art. and located near Bordeaux. 
Sent to the front about Sept. 15, and on 
Oct. 13 was in the front line. Trans- 
ferred since to present unit. 

Joseph H. Fahey, student at W. A. 
1912-13, is Sergt. in Co. B, 311th Inf. 
Was wounded at Belleau Woods, Sept. 18. 
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Charles W. T. Goding, enrolled here 
1908-12, was for some thxie with the 
Cumberland 81ui)building Co. of Port- 
land, Me., being until the armistice the 
Assistant Purchasing Agent. The war 
being over he is back in his tire business 
again. Add., 286 State Street, Port- 
land, Me. 

Thomas F. Kilkenny, Jr., was promoted 
in Sept. to Lieut., U. S. Navy, in his ser- 
vice on the U. S. S. Montana, in transport 
duty. 

Norman G. Knapp, Corp., Co. C, 2nd 
Bn., Chemical Warfare, has been trans- 
ferred from purchasing duty and placed in 
charge of the Government Foundry on the 
Reservation at the Edgewood Arsenal, 
Edgewood, Md. This is a 12,000 man 
plant producing gas. 

Julian L. I^athrop, 2nd Lieut., 85th 
Field Art., had been in France as observer. 

E. Dench Lewis, enrolled here fall term 
1910, and son of Dr. G. Griffin Lewis, '88, 
is an Ens., Naval Aviation, Hampton 
Roads, Va. Add., 308 Waverly Avenue, 
Syracuse, N. Y. 

Harold W. Leydon, Co. C, 504th Eng., 
is with A. E. F. in France. Perm. Add., 
105 Peterboro Street, Boston, Mass. 

Milton T. MacDonald, Ens., is Personal 
Aide on Adm. Wood's Staff, Little Bldg., 
Boston, Mass. 

Gordon A. Meader, enrolled here Sept. 
1909-Dec. 1910, enlisted May 1917, in 
Signal Corps at the end of his sophomore 
year in Dartmouth College. Trained at 
Camp Devens, Cornell Training School, 
from which he was graduated June 14, 
then at Kelly Field, Tex., where he had 
just graduated with a Lieutenant's com- 
mission when the war closed. Now on 
reserve force. 

S. Rudolf Mohr, 1st Sergt., 20th Eng., 
is with A. E. F. in France. 

Philip M. Morgan, Corp., Battery C, 
101st Field Art., is with A. E. F. in France. 
Was burned by mustard gas July 15, near 
Chateau Thierry, was in hospital until 



Aug. 23, and then for about two months at 
a convalescent camp. Has been out 
again for some time. 

Frank W. Myers, enrolled here Sept. 
1904-Jan. 1907 and also in the winter of 
1911, has been in France as Sergt. in the 
417th Reg. 

Parker F. Norcross, enrolled here 1910- 
11, entered service Aug. 1, 1917, at Camp 
Chamberlain, Brunswick, Me. Trans- 
ferred to Westfield Sept. 1, 1917, and 
discharged because of eyesight Oct. 18, 

1917. Was Sergt., Co. F, 1st Maine 
Field Art. Add., Rockland, Maine. 

Clifford E. Patten, enrolled here 1912- 
13, was drafted in Aug., 1917, and soon 
promoted to Corp. and later to Sergt. 
Went to France in July, 1918, attended 
gas school, and was appointed assistant 
regimental drill instructor. Was in 
France in December, 18th Co., 5th Bn. 
Add., Stoneham, Mass. 

Carl J. Pierce was drafted Sept. 1, and 
went into the 152nd Depot Brigade at 
Camp Upton. He was discharged Dec. 
15, and is to enter the employ of the Utah 
Power and Lighting Co. at Salt Lake City, 
a branch of the Stone & Webster Co. 
Perm. Add., Cambridge, N. Y. 

Charles C. Plumb, Sergt., Batt A, 103d 
Field Art., with A. E. F. in France. 
Promoted to Sergt. Sept. 20. 

Edward D. Prouty, enrolled here 1909- 
Dec. 1911 from Spencer, Mass., was in- 
ducted into service, Med. Corps, Feb. 27, 

1918. Was two months at Fort Strong, 
Mass., and then three months at the Fort 
Andrews' Hospital as laboratory assistant. 
More recently has been pharmacist at the 
Post Hospital, Fort Warren, Mass. Add., 
343 Washington St., Middletown, Conn. 

C. Read Richardson, Ens., is Exec. Off., 
Submarine Chaser 79, in foreign waters. 
Base recently at Corfu, Greece. 

Henry W. Ruhl, 1st. Lieut., is in Hdq. 
Co., 118th Inf. Was with the 30th 
(Wild Cat) Division, so highly praised by 
Sir Douglas Haig in the movement against 
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Oct. Was severely wounded Oct. 4, and 
for several weeks thereafter was in the 3d 
General Hospital, London, Eng. Is now 
convalescing. 

Edward F. Saflford, enrolled here Sept. 
1911-Dec. 1912, embarked with the 26th 
Div. in Sept. 1917. Did patrol and scout 
work during the summer. Was gassed on 
Oct. 23 and sent to hospital at Bordeaux. 
Rejoined Co. K, 101st Inf., Intelligence 
Dept., Nov. 12. He enlisted in Clinton in 
April, 1917, and was at the camp at South 
Framingham during the following summer. 
Add., Lancaster, Mass. 

Leonard A. Sibley has been for six 
months in the Ordnance Dept'. of the 
Army, assigned to duty at the American 
Optical Company at his home in South- 
l)ridge, Mass. His duties consist in the 
inspection of ojjtical systems for sights for 
the 37-mm. gun and for machine guns. 

Donald W. Siebert has been Stock 
Clerk at the Raritan Training Camp, 
Metuchen, N. J., a member of the Motor 
Transport Corps. Was ill during the fall. 

Alf E. Sieurin, Co. F, 23d Eng., is with 
A. E. F. in France. Engaged in con- 
struction work, previous to Oct. 24, on 
bridge at Nevers. Was then transferred 
to territory recently abandoned by 
Germany. 

Everett L. Stanley, 2nd Lieut., is In- 
terpreter in the Intelligence Department. 
Recently at Chaumont, France; probably 
now in Germany with Army of Occupa- 
tion. 

Conant L. Starr, Sergt., Qmst. Corj^s, 
Camp Devens, Mass. Promoted to Sergt. 

Rowland R. Strong, 2nd Lieut., U. S. 
Inf. Res. Honorably discharged Nov. 19 
from U. S. Army, to accept commission in 
U. S. Reserves. 

Alfred J. Sullivan, 2nd Lieut., Aviation, 
has been with the A. E. F. in France. 

Archibald P. W. Twombly, enrolled 
here Jan. 1910- June 1911, entered service 
Mar. 1918 at Camp Greenleaf, Ga. Was, 
in Dec, at Ellington Field, Houston, Tex., 



in the Med. Corps attached to the air 
service. Add., Box 94, North Rochester, 
N. H. 

Frederick L. Warner, Capt., 215th Eng., 
was transferred from Camp A. A. Hum- 
phreys to Camp Logan, Texas. He was 
promoted to Capt., Sept. 1. 

Walter H. Wheeler, Jr., Ens., was in 
charge of one of the twelve chasers that 
piloted the way into the harbor of Durazzo 
when the allied fleet destroyed the U-boat 
nests. 

Howard L. Whitcomb graduated from 
the Ground School of Aviation at Prince- 
ton July 22, and then went to Concentra- 
tion Camp at Camp Dick, Dallas, Tex., 
for five weeks. Was then transferred to 
Rich Field, Waco, Tex., for flying practice. 
Was about to receive commission when the 
armistice was signed. Discharged from 
service early in Dec. 

Frank A. Woods, Hdq. Co., 101st. Reg., 
Field Art., is with the A. E. F. in France. 
His captain writes of him, "For some 
time now he has been used as an observer, 
a task lioth dangerous and difficult and 
calling for absolute reliability. We have 
in the company only perhaps four or five 
men whom we can use for this work. " 

Also in service: Lieut. E. Butts, Jr. 
(France), S. L. Elbel, C. J. Kean, Corp. 
W. F. Kennedy, Lieut. P. N. Moulton, 
W. B. Schwinn, J. V. Sullivan, Lieut. 
W. C. Washburn. 

1915 

Roll of Honor: Corp. Elston A. Day, 
died of pneumonia at Camp Devens, 
Sept. 26, 1918. See page 29. Lieut. 
Warren T. Hoblis, killed in accident in 
France, June 26, 1918. 

Morris H. Bailey, Ens., Naval Aviation, 
has been in Coast Patrol Service on the 
Western Coast of France, for the last part 
of the time at Arcachon, Dept. Gironde. 
He returned home in Dec, but now has 
gone to the Aviation Station at Chatham, 
Mass. He expects to be discharged in the 
spring, and to resume his studies at Har- 
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J. Minot Bartlett, Capt., Inf., trans- 
ferred Sept. 16 from Georgia School of 
Technology to command of S. A. T. C, 
Atlanta Southern Dental Coll., Atlanta, 
Ga. Commissioned Capt. Nov. 5. 

Percy R. Batchelor entered service 
July 2.5, 1918 in Co. 9, 151st Depot Brig., 
Camp Devens, and Avas discharged Dec. 
19. He was granted an industrial fur- 
lough and was most of the time engaged on 
government work at the Washburn Shops 
at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. 
He now returns to the Boston University 
Law School. 

Roland F. Becker, Sergt., Hdq. Detach., 
301st Amm. Train, is with A. E. F. in 
France, as Reg. Supply Sergt. 

Roderic L. Bent, Ens., Naval Res., 
has been on U. S. S. America, the big 
transport vessel that sank some months 
ago at her pier in New York harbor. 

Charles D. Bourcier, 1st Lieut., re- 
turned home several weeks ago. He was 
in Paris the day the signing of the armis- 
tice was announced on the streets, and he 
says the celebration that took place was 
the greatest he ever witnessed. 

Raymond W. Boynton, 2nd Lieut., 
Co. E, 132nd Inf., is with A. E. F. in 
France. Has been "over the top" on the 
western front. 

Benjamin H. Bristol, 2nd, 1st Class 
Machinist's Mate, 2nd Co., 6th Reg., on 
duty at U. S. Navy Steam Engineering 
School Pelham Bay Park, N. Y. En- 
listed last Apr. in Naval Res.; entered 
active service in Oct. Was first at Hing- 
ham, then at Commonwealth Pier, later 
at Pelham Bay. Was graduated from 
M. I. T. in September. 

Kenneth N. Burnham, Batt. C, 103d 
Field Art., with A. E. F. in France. Has 
been in almost continuous active en- 
gagements since last March. 

Lee W. Burton, Aviation Pilot, after 
being transferred from Camp Dick took 
the twelve weeks course at Princeton, and 
was graduated there Oct. .5. Was then 
sent back to Camp Dick for instruction as 



pilot, but was discharged from service 
about Dec. 5. Has since traveled in 
California with the idea of settling there 
sometime. 

Roger B. Chaffee is still in France, now 
in the 15th Co., 20th Eng. 

William B. Cummings, 2nd Lieut., 
153d Depot Brigade, 26th Co., 7th Batt.,. 
Camp Dix, N. J. Was member of 
R. O. T. C. at Amherst, and was recom- 
mended May 15 for Fovu'th Officers' 
Training School at Camp Devens: trans- 
ferred to C. O. T. C. at Camp Lee, re- 
ceiving his commission Aug. 20; at Camp 
Dix since Sept. 5. 

A. Joseph Delehanty, enrolled here 
1913-14, is 2nd Lieut., Field Art. En- 
tered service May 24, 1917 in the Motor 
Truck Res. Ordered to Camp Logan. 
Tex., and from there to several points 
along the Border. Transferred Aug. 1,19 18, 
to Field Art. at Camp Zachary Taylor, Ky., 
and from there to Camp Knox, West 
Point, Ky. Commissioned Nov. 1918; 
placed on inactive list Nov. 29. Add., 2 
South St., Southbridge, Mass. 

N. Raymond Durant, student at W. A. 
1911-12, is Corp., Statistical Div., Gen- 
eral Hdq., with A. E. F. in France. He 
left Georgetown Law School in his 
senior year to enlist, and expects to re- 
sume his studies when discharged. Has 
been at the M. I. T. Training School, 
Camp Upton, Camp Perry, Camp Han- 
cock, and at Tours, France. Was earlier 
in the Aviation service. Perm. Add., 
154 Norton Street, New Haven, Conn. 

E. Sigurd Ericsson, Nav. Res. Flying 
Corps, Flight 34, M. I. T. Training School 
Cambridge, Mass. Has received his 
discharge and is to resume work at the 
Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Home 
Add., 38 Beaconsfield Road, Worcester, 
Mass. 

George H. Fisher, 1st Lieut., 31st 
Field Art., Camp Meade, Md., returned 
from France Sept. 2, 1918, after eight 
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the Vosges. Was at St. Die with the 5th 
Div. in the 19th Field Art. Perm. Add., 
3 Tufford Arms, Toledo, O. 

Maulsby Forrest is Gunners Mate, 
U. S. S. Aroostook. This was one of the 
ships that laid the mines across the North 
Sea from Norway to Scotland. Forrest 
was armorer of the ship, and in command 
of a mine laying crew. Has been recom- 
mended for next higher rating. Home 
Add., 722 Montgomery Road, Highland 
Park, 111. 

Carlton S. Gaynor enlisted in the 
Signal Res. Corps July 2, 1917. Was 
called to the 4th O. T. C. Camp at Camp 
Devens May 15, 1918, and commissioned 
2nd Lieut, in Field Art. August 31. Was 
assigned first to Camp Meade, Md., and 
later, Nov. 18, to the School of Fire, Fort 
Sill, Okla. Was discharged Dec. 17. 

Richard G. Hall, Corp., Co. H, 104th 
Inf., 26th Div., with A. E. F. in France. 

William W. Hewett, enrolled here 1910- 
12, was drafted in Nov. 1917; went over 
in Apr. in Co. F, 305th Inf.. Was gassed 
early in Sept. 1918 at Chateau Thierry. 
In Dec. was in the Red Cross Military 
Hospital No. 6. in France. Is a Corp. 
Add., 75 Northern Ave., N. Y. City. 

Philip H. Holbrook is in the testing 
dept., General Electric Co., Schenectady, 
N. Y. Had been previously in N. Y. City 
and Pittsfield, Mass. His work is testing 
motors and apparatus for submarines. 
Defective eyesight kept him out of the 
Air Service. Temp. Add., 201 Seward 
Place, Schenectady, N. Y. 

John W. Holland of Fitchburg has been 
in service, probably at Camp Lee. 

Lester R. Ilfeld, enrolled here 1911-13, 
went to Camp Travis, Tex., Feb. 1, 1918. 
Was later at Camp Taylor, Ky., serving 
here as Instructor, and at the School of 
Fire, Fort Sill, Okla. Has been dis- 
charged as 2nd Lieut., Field Art. Add., 
St. Anthony Hotel, San Antonio, Tex. 

James Irvine, enrolled here 1912-13, 
enlisted in Naval Coast Defense, April 
1917. Trained at Newport and was on a 



submarine chaser operating from Brooklyn, 
N. Y. Was later transferred to the Naval 
Air Service, and after training at M. I. T., 
Bay Shore, L. I., and Pensacola, Fla., was 
sent to San Diego, Cal.,as instructor with 
rank of ensign. Add., 216 Elysian Ave., 
Pittsburgh, Pa. 

Ciabriel A. Jacques, enrolled here Sept. 
1911-March 1912, brother of Emile W. 
Jacques, '13, enlisted July, 1917. Was 
sent first to the Springfield Arsenal, then 
to Camp Hancock, Ga., and was trans- 
ferred from there to Camp Raritan, N. J. 
Is a sergeant assigned to the operation and 
instruction of ordnance machine guns. 

Kenneth B. Johnson, after graduation 
from the M. I. T. Aviation School, was 
transferred in Oct. to flying jjractice at 
Miami, Fla. 

Donald Luey, Ens., has received his 
discharge. After his course last summer 
at Annapolis he was detailed with the 
U. S. S. New Jersey, and later to the 
Charlestown Navy Yard. Has returned 
to Dartmouth. 

Norman A. MacColl's section of the 
American Ambulance Service in France 
has received the following citation: 
"Section Sanitaire Americaine 627, one of 
the oldest units (dating from November 
22, 1915), originally composed of Ameri- 
can volunteers who enlisted before the 
entry of the United States into the war, 
had already given frequent proofs of 
bravery and of devotion to the wounded. 
During the offensive operations of July, 
1918, under the command of Lieut. 
Henry Iselin, it effected in the least pos- 
sible time and with entire contempt of 
danger a service of evacuation rendered 
difficult by the violent artillery fire of the 
enemy, carrying during the battle numer- 
ous wounded from the 'postes de secours' 
situated close to the line of fire. " 

Alden T. Mann, Jr., in the Supply Ser- 
vice in France, has been promoted to 2nd 
Lieut. 

P. Stewart Newton received his dis- 
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Carl H. Nichols, enrolled 1913-14, 
enlisted at Framingham, Mass., June 5, 
1917, and trained at Camp Darling, 
Framingham, and at Camp Devens; 
later at Westfield. Went to France 
October, 1917, and is in Co. A, 101st 
Military Police, 26th Div. Has been 
seriously ill twice. Add., 11 Franklin 
Street, Framingham, Mass. 

Elbert P. Nichols, Motor Car Company 
301, reported in Nov. as being at Bordeaux, 
has been abroad since March. Is greatly 
interested in his work and has refused 
recommendations of promotion that would 
take him away from his line of service. 

George A. Nichols, enrolled here 1911- 
13, voluntarily entered service as an 
enlisted .specialist Nov. 5, 1918. Has 
been stationed at Fort Warren and other 
forts in Boston Harbor, and was last at 
Fort Heath in the 14th Co., Coast Art. 
Has been engaged in electrical con- 
struction work on government contracts. 
Discharged Dec. 19. Add., 95 Ever- 
green Ave., Hartford, Conn. 

Robert J. Palmer, enlisted in the Naval 
Res. May 28, 1917, and was called into 
service Nov. 27, 1917. In Dec. he was a 
Yeoman, 3d cl., Commissary Dep't., 
Pelham Bay Park, N. Y. 

Sidney H. Perley, 2nd. Lieut., Battery 
E, 63d Field Art., has been with the 
A. E. F. in France since Jan., 1918, 
detailed at various schools. 

Chester M. Robbins, enrolled here 
Sept. 1912-March 1913, from West 
Harwich, Mass., enlisted in the Navy in 
the summer of 1917, Merchant Marine 
Div., and after having served awhile on a 
tanker plying between Port Arthur, Tex. 
and Philadelphia, was sent to the Navi- 
gation School and Training Camp at 
Pelham Bay, N. Y. He was graduated 
with an Ensign's commission last Avigust. 
Was detailed to the U. S. S. Lake Elsinore 
and sent to oversea service. Add., 47 
Bank Street, Attleboro, Mass. 

Jerome Rosenblum enlisted Aug. 2, 
1918, in the Coast Art. at Fort Totten, 



N. Y., and was assigned to 1st Co. Was 
transferred to Fort Tilden, 21st Co., 
Aug. 16, and appointed Sept. 28 to the 
O. T. C, Fort Monroe, Va., in Co. C. 

Joseph L. Rosenmiller has been since 
April 22 in the Nav. Unit at Lehigh 
University; is ranked as a Yeoman, 2nd 
Class. 

Paul H. Sanborn, enrolled here 1913-14, 
enlisted in the Marine Service Jan., 1918, 
while a senior at Syracuse Univ. Trained 
at Mare Island, Cal., and then in Va., and 
then was sent to France. Was in the 
fighting at Chateau Thierry. His unit is 
the 78th Co., 6th Reg. Add., Henniker, 
N.H. 

Leon W. Saunders, enrolled here 1911- 
12, entered the Naval Res. May 17, 1917, 
and is at the Naval War College, Newport, 
R.I., as Medical Aide to the Commandant, 
2nd Naval District. Add., 153 Columbia 
Ave., Edgewood, R. I. 

Gouverneur B. Sayles, enrolled here 
1909-11, enlisted May 17, 1917, in the 
Naval Res. and after training at Newport, 
R. I., was transferred to a submarine 
chaser. Add., 68 Winthrop St., Taunton, 
Mass. 

Frederick S. Schlesinger entered the 
Naval Res. in March 1918, and has been 
stationed at Pelham, L. I., as seaman. 

Everett H. Skinner was wounded Oct. 9, 
at Consonvoye, France, a little town on 
the east bank of the Meuse, by a machime 
gun bullet which went through his right 
hand just below the wrist. As four 
months were needed for recovery he was 
ordered back to the States, arriving here 
Nov. 17. He expected to be discharged 
from the hospital at Fort McHenry, Md., 
about Feb. 1. He had been promoted to 
2nd Lieut. 

Henry S. Small, Chief Machinist's 
Mate, Submarine Chaser 97, has been in 
foreign waters near England. 

Harry B. Smith, 102nd Inf., is with the 
Army of Occupation in German}'. 

Herman L. Timken, enrolled here 1913- 
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gency fleet with F. Fergeson & Son, Iron 
Founders, Hoboken, N. J. Add., 51 
Boon Place, Weehawken, N. J. 

Austin H. Welch was in the Naval 
Training School at Bumkin Island until 
Dec. 20. Has now returned to his studies 
at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. 

Everett A. Wight was drafted Aug. 6, 
1918, and assigned to Batt. F, 35th 
Field Art. Was sent to Camp McClellan, 
Anniston, Ala. Is a Sergt. 

Donald B. Winter was still, in Dec, in 
Mine Detail work on U. S. S. Housatonic, 
in foreign waters. 

Also in service: P. B. Amor (France), 
A. R. Amos, Jr., Lieut. C. J. Bradley 
(France), Sergt. C. G. Brandt, Sergt. J. J. 
Cantwell (France), \Y. L. Davol, B. A. 
Dickson, S. C. Fitts, J. P. Franklin 
(France), R. F. McGillicuddy, Lieut J. J. 
Norton, F. H. Pierce (France), G. N. 
Weiffenbach, T. J. Whelan. 

And in S. A. T. C.: H. T. Nettleton, 
Yale; J. H. Weeks, Brown. 

1916 

Roll of Honor: Sergt. Andrew J. Pro- 
vost, Jr., died in France from wounds, 
Nov. 7, 1918. See page 29. Joseph W. 
Zwinge, died in France from wounds, 
Apr. 16, 1918. 

Greff Allen was commissioned 2nd 
Lieut, last Feb., and assigned as Flying 
instructor at Kellv Field, San Antonio, 
Tex. Was later transferred to Taylor 
Field, Montgomery, Ala. He writes in 
Oct.; "Am out of luck; must have been 
lost in the shuffle. Am still figliting the 
battle of Alabama." 

John J. Banigan, 2nd Lieut., Aviation, 
Ellington Field, Houston, Texas. Perm. 
Add., 176 Medwav Street, Providence, 
R. I. 

John A. Beaman, Ens., Naval Res., was 
on duty during the summer at the Naval 
Hdq., 1st District, Boston. Has since 
been on Trawler 55, a boat taken over by 
the U. S. Navy from the Canadian 
Government, as executive officer. 



\\'hitney J. Bent, student at W. A. 
1914-15, enlisted June 15, 1917, for a year 
in Unit 3, of the Amer. Forestry Corps, 
and left for Ardgay, Ross-Shire, Scotland. 
When his year was finished he enlisted in 
Scotland and went to Winchester, Eng., to 
train with the A. E. F. Went to France 
last Aug. in the 31st Co., 20th Eng., and 
soon after was made Corp. Home Add., 
91 Smnmer St., Maynard, Mass. 

Frank A. Billig, enrolled here 1913-14, 
enlisted in the Ambulance Service, 
S. S. U. 627, June 25, 1917, and trained at 
Allentown and Tobyhanna, Pa. Was 
promoted to Sergt., but on volunteering 
for oversea duty was reduced to a private's 
basis. Went overseas Dec. 25, 1917. 
Add., 211 Pine Street, Tamaqua, Pa. 

Harry A. Bourne, Co. H, 23d Eng., 
with A. E. F. in France, was sent to 
France in Feb., 1918, transferred to the 
Engineers a month later, and has been at 
the front since that time. He enlisted in 
Nov., 1917 for the period of the war. 
Add., 22 Empire Street, Allston, Mass. 

James P. Bower has been at the Edge- 
wood Arsenal, Edgewood, Md. 

Leonard M. Brabrook, enrolled here 
1909-15, enlisted in the Coast Art., 
Feb. 23, 1918, and after a month at Fort 
Andrews sailed for France, March 24. 
Attended an automobile school at Cler- 
mont-Ferrand, and, having passed exam- 
inations for a wagoner, went into action 
July 28 at Chateau Thierry and from there 
to the Argonne. Was sent to rest billets 
Nov. 6; has probably returned home. 
His unit was Batt. B, 55th Coast Art. 
Add., 79 Church Green, Taunton, Mass. 

Earle W. Briggs, enrolled here Jan. 
1914-1915, is a Corp., Qmst. Corps, and 
was, on Dec. 19, in General Hospital 9, 
Lakewood N. J., in charge of Subsistence 
Branch and Commissary. He entered 
the service in Dec, 1917, and received his 
training at Camp Joseph E. Johnston, 
Jacksonville, Fla. 

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from the Ground School iit Cornell 
Sept. 7; from Art. School of Fire, Fort 
Sill, Okla., Nov. 15, and since then has 
been flying at Post Field, Fort Sill. Is 
considering remaining jjcrmanently with 
the Aviation Service of the Regular Army. 

Orlando W. Brown has been since 
July in the M. I. T. Eng. unit, connected 
with the designing of heavy artillery and 
projectiles. Discharged Dec. 11; reenters 
regular course at M. I. T. 

Warren M. Chaml^erlain, after finishing 
in Sept. the Aviation Course at M. I. T., 
was sent to the Naval Air Station at Key 
West, Fla.. to finish training. He is now 
an instructor at this school, and plans to 
stay in the service for some time. Ex- 
pects commission as Ens. soon. 

Robert M. Chase, Electrician, 1st CI. 
(Radio), having been since April, 1917 in 
active service in Narragansett Bay and 
adjacent waters, is now at the Naval 
Radio Sta., Siasconset, Mass. 

John W. Craig is now a Lieut, in 
Aviation, instructing in Night Bomb 
Raiding, Ellington Field, Houston, Tex. 

Charles F. H. Crathern, Jr., Lieut., 
Co. F, U. S. Inf., Camp Corrlon, Atlanta, 
Ga. 

Raymond J. Cushman, 76 Div., with 
A. E. F. in France. Working on engines 
and road maps. Recently at Aix-les- 
Bains. Was at the front 57 days. Add., 
525 Washington St., Whitman, Mass. 

Daniel J. Dempsey, Jr., was selected 
from the Harvard S. A. T. C. to enter the 
Art. O. T. S. at Camp Zachary Taylor, 
Louisville, Ky. He is now back at Har- 
vard, class of 1920. 

George P. Douglas, enrolled here 1912- 
Dec. 1914, enlisted in the Navy Dec, 1917, 
and has been Armed Guard on the V. S. S. 
Minneapolis and later on the Standard. 
Add., 815 Marcy Ave., Brooklyn. N. Y. 

George V. Dowd, Co. L, 101st Inf., 
A. E. F. in France, was made Corp. in 
August. 



Victor Eisner, student at W. A. 1912- 

13, enlisted Aug. 8, in the Qmst. Corps, 
then entered O. T. S. at Camp Joseph E. 
Johnston, Jacksonville, Fla. Was com- 
missioned 2nd Lieut. Discharged from 
service Dec. 2. Add., Red Bank, N. J. 

Hugh J. Gaffey sailed for France about 
July 13, in the 312th Field Art. Was 
promoted to 1st Lieut, in Nov. 

Warren S. Gault is at the Fort Monroe 
O. T. C. On taking the entrance exam- 
ination for this course he made 100%. 
He is expected home about the middle of 
Feb., and hopes to bring a 2nd Lieutenant's 
commission with him. Will then return 
to his work at Dartmouth. 

Robert M. Gowell, enrolled here 1914- 
15 from Framingham, Mass., enlisted 
April 1, 1917, in the Naval Aviation Corps, 
training at Pensacola, Fla., and sailed 
overseas. May 21, 1917. Spent last 
winter in Brittany, and received a com- 
mission as Ens. early last summer. Was in 
Dec. in Arcachon. Gironde, France. 

Ray W. Greene, Jr., completed his work 
at Taylor Field, Montgomery, Ala., the day 
the armistice was signed, and was com- 
missioned 2nd Lieut, in Aviation, and 
placed on the Reserve List and discharged 
Dec. 19. He has returned to Brown. 

Bruno P. Haas, Ens., Aviation, is 
instructor at Naval Air Station, Pensa- 
cola, Fla. Visited Academy about Jan. 1, 
during furlough of 16 days. 

Milton B. Hallett, enrolled here 1911- 

14, was drafted Sept. 18, 1917, and after 
training at Camp Devens went to France 
July 5, 1918, in the 151st Field Art. Add., 
Ashland, Me. 

Richard A. Heald has been at an aero- 
plane factory in New Jersey. 

Roger N. Heald was for a time in Pitts- 
burgh, Pa., at an aeroi)lane factory. 

Lawrence L. Holden, Jr., enrolled here 
1911-13, entered service July 16, 1917, 
in the naval reserve. Has been on the 
IT. S. S. Massachusetts, and in Dec. was at 
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rank of machinist's mate. Add., Tiver- 
ton. R. I. 

Dwight I. Jacobs has been made 1st 
Lieut. The 35th Machine Gun Bn., to 
which he was attached at Camp Devens, 
was about to go overseas when the 
armistice was signed. Has probably 
now been discharged. 

Francis V. Jakaitis, Co. O., Camp 
Devens, was assigned as a teacher of 
English to Lithuanian soldiers. 

W. Wesson Jervey was graduated from 
West Point with emergency class Nov. 1., 
with commission as 2nd Lieut. 

Henning L. Johnson, Sergt., Ambulance 
Corps, in France, received on July 8 the 
Croix de Guerre. 

Leslie C. Jones has remained in Gas 
Defense work at Philadelphia, Pa. 

Howard A. Kaichen attended during 
the past summer the Harvard Training 
School, and during the month of Oct. was 
voluntarily inducted into the 25th Officers' 
Training Bn. at Camp Zachary Taylor, 
Louisville, Ky. 

Osmund O. Keiver, enrolled here 1913- 
14, enlisted in the Naval Res. Nov. 1913, 
attended the Listener's School at New 
London, Conn., and has been listener in 
oversea service on the submarine chaser 
277. Add., 28 Academy Hill Road, 
Brighton, Mass. 

Ernest H. Kieser, enrolled liere Sept. 
1914-Dec. 1915, enli.sted May 1, 1918, in 
the Naval Res., Radio Service, and was 
in Dec. at the Pelham School in Co. F, 
11th Reg. Add., 53 Conger Ave., Haver- 
straw, N. Y. 

Richard S. Kimball was during the fall 
at the O. T. S. at Camp Lee, Va., and was 
made a 2nd Lieut. Jan. 15. 

L. Palmer Lavallee, Corp., was trans- 
ferred Sept. 28 from the Buzzer School 
at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. to the 622nd 
Field Signal Bn., attached to the 97th 
Div., at Camp Cody, New Mex. 

Furber M. Libby, 2nd Lieut, Co. I, 
42nd Inf., was just to start for oversea 
duty when the armistice was signed. 



Herbert H. Linnell entered the Cornell 
S. A. T. C. Oct. 1, and went from there to 
the O. T. C. at Camp Lee, Va. Oct. 12. 
Was commissioned 2nd Lieut, of Res. Jan. 
15, returning to his work at Cornell. Coll. 
Add., Hillcre.st, Ithaca, N. Y. 

Donald MacDonald has been dis- 
charged from the Ensign School at Bum- 
kin Island. He is attending a business 
college in Worcester. 

Morgan L. Matson, enrolled here from 
North Woodstock, N. H. 1912-14, was 
drafted in March, 1918, trained at Camp 
Dix, went overseas in May, and was 
afterwards in active service, the later 
part of the war in the operations along 
the Meuse. Reported by cablegram unin- 
jured and in good health Nov. 20. Was a 
corporal, Co. A, 307th Mach. Gun Bn. 
Add., Wellsboro, Pa. Previous to enter- 
ing army was manager of the Chicago 
sales branch of the Wire Wheel Corp. of 
America. 

John F. McCabe has been in the 18th 
Co., Central O. T. S., Camp Lee, Va. 

James M. McGuinness remains in the 
Med. Corps, Evacuation Hospital No. 5, 
in Belgiimi. For awhile was a volunteer 
stretcher-bearer, under fire. Has been on 
practically every front where troops have 
advanced. 

Raymon F. Meader enlisted at Platts- 
burg, July 29, 1918, in the S. A. T. C. Was 
accepted for Field Art., commissioned 2nd 
Lieut. Sept. 14, and transferred to Camp 
Zachary Taylor, Ky. He remained there 
until Dec. 14, when he was discharged. 
Has returned to W. P. I. Coll. Add., 6 
Humboldt Avenue. 

George A. Midwood, Jr., is an Ens., 
Naval Aviation, on foreign duty. Re- 
ceived training at the M. I. T. Ground 
School, and the Naval Air Stations at 
Bay Shore, L. I., and Pensacola, Fla. 

James H. Munyan, Qmst. Corps, was 
made 2nd Lieut, about Sept. 1, and is in 
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John L. Nelson, Batt. A, 101st Field 
Art., 26th Div., sailing for France in the 
first convoy of National Guard troops, was 
first at action at Chemin-des-Dames and 
the Toul sector. He remained here until 
ordered to Chateau Thierry, where his 
battery participated in the second battle 
of the Marne. He took active part in the 
drive at St. Mihiel, and in tlu^ final 
campaign on the Meuse and in the 
Argonne, his battery remaining in line 
until Nov. 11. Writes in Dec. 30 from 
Varennes, France, the first stopping point 
of his regiment on its way across France 
to port of embarkation. 

Reuben T. Palmer, Coxswain, Naval 
Res., was transferi-ed from the command 
of the U. S. S. Barbara to the command 
of the U. S. S. Kingfisher, S- P- 76, in 
duty off New London. Conn. These 
commands recognize his particularly suc- 
cessful work, although he is too young to 
receive a commission He is now dis- 
charged, and is with the Baldwin Chain 
Co., Worcester, Mass. 

Howard B. Parker, in active service in 
the Naval Res. in the Mediterranean with 
base at Corfu, participated in the battle 
of Durazzo Oct., 1918. Was at Rome, 
Jan. 27. 

Robert T. Pender entered service 
Sept. 23, in the Coast Art., Fort Warren, 
Boston Harbor. Passed examinations 
for the O. T. S. at Fort Monroe, Oct. 11, 
and transferred there. Is now discharged 
and has returned to the M. I. T. Has 
been elected athletic editor of the 
Technique, the college year book. Add., 
25 Rogers Ave , Lynn, Mass. 

Gordon W. Phelps, after returning from 
his Ambulance Service abroad, has re- 
turned to Columbia. 

W. Russell Ratigan, Ens., is on U. S. S. 
Rhode Island. 

Leonard J. Raymond enlisted in Oct. 
in the Marine Corps, and was stationed 
with the Harvard Unit. Was mustered 
out in Dec, and has returned to his work 



with the Boston Adv Service Co., 44 
Bromfield St., Boston, Mass. 

Eugene A. Reilly, after being twice re- 
jected for defective vision when he 
endeavored to enlist, was drafted Sept. 3, 
and assigned to 45th Co., 151st Depot 
Brig , Inf., Camp Devens. 

C. Ely Rogers, enrolled here Sept. 
1912-Dec. 1914, enhsted in Naval Res. 
May 16, 1917; trained at the Yale Boat 
House, New Haven; and transferred to 
U. S. S. Pocahontas in Aug., 1917. Has 
made ten voyages to France. In Apr. 
his ship was attacked by a German sub- 
marine, but escaped after nearly one 
hundred shots had been exchanged. He 
is ranked as Qmst., 3rd CI. Add., 
Moodus, Conn. 

George F. Rumney, who went on 
active duty in the Naval Res. June 1, 
received his commission Oct. l,at Pelham 
Bay. Then for a month he was stationed 
at the District Communication Office, 
44 Whitehall St., N. Y. City, and was 
awaiting sea duty when the armistice 
was signed. On Dec. 14 was relieved from 
active duty and returned to Yale. 

Theodore C. Rumney was at the Naval 
Barracks in Madison, Conn, during the 
summer. Served on S. P. 803 during 
early part of fall, then entered Aviation 
School at Yale. Had been transferred 
to M. I. T. and was awaiting call at the 
time the armistice was signed. 

Stuart A. Russell, formerly of the Med. 
Corps, 114th Inf., 26th Div., was 
cited for gallant conduct and devotion 
to duty in the field on July 18-23, 1918, 
aiding wounded comrades under heavy 
enemy fire. Was recommended after 
Chateau Thierry for the Saumur School of 
Heavy Art., and was graduated from it 
Nov. 30. 

Merton I. Ryan took a course in the 
Dartmouth Training Detachment the 
past summer, being retained as an in- 
structor in the Radio Service after 
finishing his course. He was made 1st 
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had returned to the W. H. McElwain Co., 
shoe manufacturers, Manchester, N. H , 
as foreman on inspection and quahty. 
He writes that he has a son now sixteen 
months old who is starting out to be a 
football player at Worcester Academy. 
His address is changed to 34 Everett St. 

Earl H. Sanderson, Co. F, 102nd Inf., 
26th Div., with A. E. F. in France, has 
been jiromoted to Sergt. Was awarded 
special war medal Oct. 5. 

Mason O. Sears, enrolled here 1913-14) 
was with the Colorado Nat. Guard at the 
Mexican border, 1916. Was called to the 
colors when the U. S. entered the war, 
and after a time spent at Camp Kearney, 
Cal., where he was made Corp., he was 
appointed to the O. T. S. at Camp 
Pike, Ark. Was graduated as 2nd Lieut. 
Oct. 15, 1918, and assigned to Camp 
Sherman, Ohio, where he was in Dec, in 
Co. D, Bn 3. Add., Care H. L. Sears, 43 
East Ohio St., Chicago, 111. 

William B. Shaw is an Ens. in the Naval 
Res., since January 7 on inactive duty. 
Has been on boats to Buenos Ayres and 
to various West Indian ports, and later on 
a boat running to Bordeaux, France. 

James F. Simpson is in Co. E, 315th 
Amm. Train, with the Army of Occupation 
in Germany. Recently billeted at Mar- 
bach. 

Raymond N. Smith, Naval Aviation- 
was transferred Sept. 5 from Charleston, 
S. C. to the Aeronautic St a. at Pensa- 
cola, Fla. He then entered the Machin- 
ist's School for a twelve week's course. 

Gerald S. Stone, who entered the Naval 
Service after his return from France last 
May, has Ijeen discharged and is with the 
Crompton & Knowles Co., in Worcester. 

Leroy B. Taft, enrolled here 1911-13, 
enlisted Sept. 25, 1918, in the Coast Art. 
Was sent to Fort Mc Arthur, 1st Co., 19th 
Coast Art. Was about to go to Fort 
Monroe when the armistice was signed. 
Mustered out Dec. 14. 

G. Curtis Tingley, Mil. Police, 101st 
Inf., is with A. E. F. in France. 



Everett Trask, enrolled here 1913-14, 
from Newburyport, Mass., entered the 
Med. Service Sept. 1, 1917, at Lanchy, 
France, being transferred from the 
American Ambulance Service. Invalided 
home March 29, 1918, because of pleuro- 
pneumonia. After convalescence, as- 
signed to General Hospital No. 9, Lake- 
wood, N. J. 

Charles N. Warbasse has been trans- 
ferred from the Aviation school at M. I. T. 
to Pensacola, Fla. 

Also in service: J. L. Ballantyne 
(France), H. E. Drake, A. E. Foster, 
G. M. Gilligan (France), W. A. Jaffar 
(France), J. M. Malone, Ens. A. L. Morse, 
R. A. Murphy (France), Sergt. J. E. 
Robertson, J. B. Rousseau, Corp. H. L. 
Shuttleworth (France), C. H. Tichenor 
(France) . 

And in the S. A. T. C: C. F. Abbott, 
Brown Univ.; H. M. Butter, M. I. T., 
F. W. Crane, Harvard, W. H. Dale, Dart- 
mouth, C. T. Gilbert, W. P. I., E. P. 
Rowell, Jr., M. I. T., C. N. Santini, Porto 
Rico, K. C. Whyte, Univ. of Montana. 

1917 

Roll of Honor: D. Emory Holman, 
died of pneumonia, at Newport, R. I., 
Oct. 9; 1918, See page 30. Lewis A. 
Young, died of influenza, in France, 
Oct. 15,1918. See page 31. 

Harry A. Adams, enrolled here in the 
winter term 1913, was called to active 
service in the Naval Res. July 2, 1918. 
Trained at Camp Hingham for three 
weeks and was then assigned to the 
Co,st Ins. Dept. at Bakers Yacht Basin, 
Quincy, Mass.; where he remains with 
rank of yeoman, 2nd cl. Add., 17 Mel- 
ville St., Worcester, Mass. 

Ralph C. Allen was at last reports 1st 
class gun pointer on U. S. S. Rochester. 

Russell W. Barber, enrolled here Jan. 
1912-14, enlisted in the Coast Art. in 
June, 1917. Trained at Fort Standish 
and Fort Adams. In Jan., 1918, was sent 
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Howitzer Reg. from April on. Was in 
the battle of Argonne Forest; sent from 
there to Verdun Nov. 24, then with Batt. 
E, 51st Coast Art. Add., Wakefield, R.I. 

James M. Barnes, enrolled here 1913- 

14, entered the Marine corps. July, 1918; 
was assigned to Paris Island, S. C, and 
on Oct. 28, sailed for oversea duty. In 
Dec. he was in Co. C, 9th Replacement Bn. 

George W. Basso w enlisted July 25, 
1918, at Boston in the Med. Enlisted Res. 
Oct. 26 entered the S. A. T. C. at the 
University of Vermont. Was made Corp. 
three weeks later. .\dd., 88 Kennebunk 
Street, Athol, Mass. 

Harold W. Bishoj), Batt. A, l()3d 
Field Art., with A. E. F. in France, was 
in constant action with the 26th Div. up 
to Oct. 10. Later was in hosi)ital at 
Vichy for muscular rheiunatism, the 
result of influenza Perm. Add., 14 
Grant Street, North Attleboro, Mass. 

William J. Blanchard enlisted in the 
Marine Service, Aug. 1, 1917. Was sent 
to Paris Island, S. C, where he won a 
marksman's pin, to Quantico, Va., and 
then with 78th Co., 6th Reg. of Marines, 
to France. Was gassed, June 14, at 
Chateau Thierry. About Oct. 1 was 
wounded in the right hand by a piece of 
German shrapnel. Nov. 12 was reported 
in the hospital. Home Add., 46 Grove 
St., Worcester, Mass. 

Harold A. Bolles was at Plattsburg last 
summer, and was commissioned a 2nd 
Lieut., Sept. 16. Was assigned to the 9th 
Inf., replacement and training troops, and 
sent to Camp Grant, 111. Returned home 
late in Nov. 

Harvey Burton went to Central O. T. S. 
at Camp Lee, Va., Oct. 15. Was dis- 
charged, Nov. 23. 

Earl B. Carter, student at W. A. 1914- 

15, enlisted at Boston, Mass., July 20, 
1918. Was sent to Paris Island, S. C, 
and from there to Quantico, Va. From 
here he went to France with 1 1th Marines. 
Add., 144 Main St., Manchester, Conn. 



Fred B.Corcoran enlisted April 14, 1917, 
at Boston, in the Naval Res. Was at 
Bumkin Island from July 31, 1917, to 
May 20, 1918, when he was transferred to 
the District Enrolling Office. Was at the 
Chelsea Nav. Hosp. July-Oct. 1918, and 
after a few days of active service had 
again to enter the hospital, this time 
the Mass. Homeopathic. Discharged for 
physical reasons with rank of Machinist's 
Mate, 2nd cL, Nov. 22, 1918. Perm. Add., 
42 School St., Brockton, Mass. 

Edson L. Crafts, of the Harvard 
S. A. T. C., had been accepted for the 
Heavy Art. O. T. C. at Fort Monroe, Va. 
The end of war broke off plans. Is 
continuing his regular studies at Harvard. 

Harold A. Crane, Cadet in the Aviation 
Service, has been transferred to Kell>- 
Field No. 2, San Antonio, Tex. 

Alden C. Eldridge has been at the Naval 
Training Camp, Hingham, Mass. 

Charles L. Farnsworth, enrolled here 
the fall of 1915, enlisted June 6, 1917, as 
Apprentice Seaman on l^ S. S. Virginia. 
Has made two oversea trips. Was at 
first a radio operator, then took up nav- 
igation, and was matle 2nd class Quarter- 
master last Oct. Add., 6 Franklin Terr., 
Hyde Park, Mass. 

A. Clyde Freeman, Jr., Battery A, 
103d Field Art., 26th Div., has been made 
Corp. He was at Chateau Thierry and 
St. Mihiel, was reported Nov. at a rest 
camp at Bar-le-Duc. He writes Mr. 
Hazelton, in French, Jan. 2, from Vecq, 
Haute Marne. 

Norman P. Gaskill, enrolled here 1914- 
15, entered the Franklin Union Training 
School at Boston, Aug. 15, 1918, for a Gas 
Engine course, then went to Fort Strong, 
and on Oct. 16 to Fort Monroe as an in- 
structor. Add., Box 200, Blackstone, 
Mass. 

Virgil F. Gill, enrolled here in the fall of 
1913, enlisted April 9, 1918, in the Med. 
Corps, and was stationed recently at 
Fort Leavenworth, Kan. Add., 209 
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Harold K. Gleason, enrolled here Jan. 
1913-June 1915, enlisted Oct. 23, 1918, in 
the Merchant Marine Shipping Service. 
Was called to New York, Dec. 8. Add., 
9 Silver St., Worcester, Mass. 

John J. Gleason, enrolled here 1913-16, 
received an appointment to Annapolis 
through a competitive examination, and 
having' pa.ssed mental examination was re- 
jected last July because of defective color 
sense. He entered the S. A. T. C. at the 
Rens.selaer Polytechnic Inst. Oct. 1, 1918, 
and was discharged Dec. 14. Add., Box 47, 
Bennington, Vt. 

Cecil H. Goldbeck was unsuccessful in 
France in his attempts to get in either the 
French, English, or American armies. 
Returned to the States and has been at 
Dartmouth in the S. A. T. C. 

Willis F. Goldbeck, in the British 
Royal Air Force, was made 2nd Lieut, in 
Toronto, about Aug. 1. He sailed im- 
mediately for England and was posted at 
Duxford Camp near London. Temp. 
Add., Royal Automobile Club, Pall Mall, 
London, Eng. 

Robert B. Gould, enrolled here Sept, 
1912-March 1914, enlisted in the Navy 
June 5, 1917, and after training at New 
London, New York City, and Perth 
Amboy, N. J., he was placed as Qmst. on 
the U. S. S. Seminole. Add., 67 Walnut 
St., Fitchburg, Mass. 

Ralph R. Hayes, enrolled here 1914-15, 
volunteered in the Naval Res. and entered 
active service, June 4, 1917, as Radio 
Electrician. Trained at the Harvard 
Radio School and at Pelham Bay Park, 
graduating as Ens.. Feb. 23, 1918. After 
three months sea duty was commissioned 
Lieut., and in December was on his 
seventh trip to France, being then on the 
U. S. S. Pasadena. Add., Bar Harbor, 
Maine. 

Robert W. Jackson has been promoted 
to 2nd Lieut., and has been connected 
with the 63d Pioneer Inf., Camp Dix, 

N. J. 



Ronald P. Hallett, Nav. Aviation Ser- 
vice, has been promoted from Chief Qmst. 
to Ens. He was transferred, July 10, from 
Miami to Pensacola, Fla., for advanced 
training, and shortly afterwards received 
his commission. He immediateh' put in a 
request for foreign service, but was as- 
signed as Instructor of Squad. 6., Pensa- 
cola Naval Air Station. 

Brainard M. Jacobs is in Washington as 
Statistician, Central Bureau of Planning 
and Statistics, War Industries Board. 
Temp. Add., 3709 Livingston Street, 
Chevy Chase, Washington, D. C. 

Daniel J. Kelley went across in June 
1918 for Ambulance Service, and was as- 
signed for duty with a French division at 
the front. July 1, he left the front for 
training at Saumur. Received com- 
mission as 2nd Lieut, in Oct., and went 
back to the front in the Balloon Section of 
the Field Art. Air Service. 

Arthur F. La Roque, enrolled here 1915- 
16, was drafted, Oct. 22, 1918, and has been 
in the 2nd Truck Co., 60th Coast Art., 
Portsmouth, N. H. Add., 99 Granite 
St.,Bernn, N.H. 

Dudley W. Leavitt, enrolled here 1912- 

14, entered service April 29, 1918, at Camp 
Dix. In October was transferred to the 
O. T. S. at Camp Hancock, Ga. Was a 
Sergt. in Machine Gun service, and was in 
line for a commission when the war closed. 
Returned home Dec. 11. Add., 650 
Euclid Ave., Elmira, N. Y. 

Philij) W. Linnell entered the Cornell 
S. A. T. C. Oct. 1, 1918, and was trans- 
ferred to the Central O. T. S. at Camp 
Lee, Va., Oct. 12. Was commissioned 2nd 
Lieut, in the Res. Corps, Jan. 15, 1919. 
Is back at Cornell. 

James V. Lione, Battery E, 31st Art., 
is at Camp Eustis, Va. 

Herbert G. Lockhart, enrolled here 
1915-16, has been in Co. A, S. A. T. C, 
Mass. Inst. Tech. Add., 1 Park Ave., 
Highland Park, Upper Darby P. O., Pa. 

John G. Maclntyre, enrolled here 1912- 

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Was at base hospital at Camp Devens 
until Sept. 1,. then went overseas and has 
since been stationed at Amer. Red Cross 
Hospital 21, Paignton, South Devon, 
Eng. Add., 44 Haskell Ave., Clinton, 
Mass. 

J. Russell Maguire, Chief Qmst., Naval 
Aviation, was, Nov. 28, at the M. I. T. 
Aviation School, with three weeks more of 
training before finishing course. 

Charles E. Masters arrived at the 
Italian War Front for ambulance service 
May 31, took part in the Austrian offen- 
sive, and his section (3) was cited for 
"Courageous, consistent, and distinctive 
conduct," receiving thus the Italian War 
Cross, "Croce di Guerra." Was sent 
back to this country at end of Sept. on 
account of inactivity on the Italian front. 
Immediately entered the Harvard S . A.T.C . 
Remains at Harvard. 

Everett J. Mills, enrolled here Sept. 
1913-March 1916, enlisted Sept., 1917, in 
Ambulance Corps 23, and is with A. E. F. 
in France. 

Frank F. Newth, a student at the Acad- 
emy in the spring of 1914, was drafted 
Oct. 5, and went across Dec. 27, 1917. He 
is a Corp.. assigned as Qmst. Clerk, with 
A. E. F. in France. 

Clayton N. Norwood, enrolled here 
1913-14, enlisted Aug. 14, 1917, as electri- 
cian in Co. A, 101st Signal Corps, 26th 
Div. Has been in France; has rank of 
Corp. Add., 47 Beacon St., Gloucester, 
Mass. 

William W. Orem, enrolled here 1913- 
14, enlisted in the Motor Transport Ser- 
vice, and was assigned to the Qmst. Corps 
at Camp Meigs, Washington, D. C. 
Served in band while waiting for as- 
signment. Add., 663 Third Avenue, 
Salt Lake City, Utah. 

Charles G. Peck was in the Cornell 
S. A. T. C. Has now been elected asst. 
business manager of the Cornell "Widow." 

George A. Pelletier, Mess Sergt., 301st 
Trench Mortar Batt., was recently near 
St. Amand, France. 



Othello F. Pratt, enrolled here 1914-15, 
enlisted at Athol, Mass. Aug. 15, 1918., 
and has been promoted through the 
grades to Supply Sergt., located last at 
Albany, N. Y. He has now been dis- 
charged. Add., 14 Grove Street, Athol, 
Mass. 

Harold W. Presson, after graduating 
last summer from the M. I. T. Aviation 
School, went to Camp Dick, Dallas, Tex. 
Was then at the School of Fire, Fort Sill, 
Okla., for training in Light Art. Observing. 
After seven weeks here, he was graduated 
and sent to Post Field. Was discharged 
in Dec Was on football squad at Camp 
Dick. 

Francis C. Randlett, enrolled here 1914- 
15, has been in France with the 6th Reg. of 
Marines, having enlisted last April. 

Harry B. Read, enrolled here in the fall 
of 1914, has been since April, 1918, at the 
Colt's Fire Arms Manufacturing Co., 
Hartford, Conn., employed by the U. S. 
Ordnance Dep't. as a civilian worker. 
Add., 217 Windham Road, W^illimantic, 
Conn. 

Durant H. Richmond is in France, with 
Ambulance Co. 301. 

Donato L. Ru.ssell is a Lieut, in the 
Aviation Dept., and has been at March 
Field, Riverside, Cal. Add., 183 Center 
St., W^allingford, Conn. 

Heaton L. Ryan, enrolled here Sept. 
1914-March 1915, was drafted Oct. 7, 
1917, from Gardner, Mass., where he had 
started in the hotel business. Trained at 
Camp Devens, being made Corp. there. 
Sent to France in Feb., 1918, and was 
attached to Gen. Pershing's Headquarters; 
was made Sergt. Has acted as carrier and 
despatch bearer, taking part in the en- 
gagements at Chateau Thierry. 

Thomas G. Sadler, Jr., enrolled here 
1913-14, went to Camp Devens March 
29, 1918, was soon transferred to Camp 
Upton, but sailed for France shortly after, 
arriving there May 8. Went into active 
service in July and was later transferred to 
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as messenger, carrying messages from the 
infantry back to his battery in the 
Argonne Forest, and the next day was 
among those who were surrounded with 
Col. Whittlesey's Battalion. He was 
wounded on Oct. 8 in the upper part of the 
leg l)v a shell which burst as he was lying 
in a shallow dugout. He was not removed 
until the next day. Early in Dec. he was 
at Base Hospital 15. Chaumont, France, 
getting along nicely and able to walk 
without crutches. Add., South Attle- 
boro, Mass. 

Bertram F. Scudder, enrolled here 
Sept. 1913-Dec. 1916, volunteered Feb. 
2.5,1918. and after training at CampUpton, 
Gettysburg, Pa., and Tobyhanna, Pa., 
went to France. He is now Corp., Co. A, 
326th Bn., in the Tank Corps. Add., 
71 Hudson St., New York City. 

David E. Small, Jr., Apprentice Sea- 
man, U. S. Naval Res., has been at Puget 
Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Wash. 

Michael S. Small left Cornell in Oct., 
and entered the Heavy Field Art. O. T. C. 
at Fort Monroe, Va. 

Elihu Spicer, enrolled here 1912-16, 
entered the Navy, March 26, 1917. After 
training at Newport and being in the 
Material Section there doing repair work 
for a year and a half, he went into the 
Submarine Service, and has been on a 
submarine as Machinist's Mate. Add., 
Noank, Conn. 

Nicholas G. Staub entered the Harvard 
S. A. T. C. Sept. 24, 1918, was assigned to 
Co. F. and served as Corp. until Nov. 13, 
when he was sent to the Coast Art. 
O. T. C. at Fort Monroe, Ya., Co. M. 

Carroll Stoughton has returned to the 
W. P. I. from the aviation service. 

Henry A. Sullivan was in Dec. Chief 
Storekeeper, Naval Aviation Forces, 
Pauillac, Gironde, France. 

Walter J. Thoms volunteered for Inf- 
service in Sept., 1918, and sailed overseas 
Oct. 12. He is in the 105th Inf. Is to 
stay in France another year. He entered 



Colgate in the fall of 1917 and was elected 
to the Omega Alpha Fraternity. 

John D. Van Kennen was during July, 
Aug., and Sept. in the School of Military 
Aeronautics at Austin, Tex. Was then 
transferred to the School of Fire at Fort 
Sill, Okla., for training for observer. 

Henry H. Watson, enrolled in the fall of 
1914, enlisted in the Navy, July, 1918, 
and is now in service on a ship overseas as 
Warrant Officer. Add., 46 Brook St., 
Pawtucket, R. I. 

Daniel E. Weaver, enrolled here in the 
fall of 1912, has been em])loyed during the 
war at the Hog Island Ship Yard, Philadel- 
phia. Had been unable to abtain ad- 
mission into the Amb. Service. Add.. 
Tamaqua, Pa. 

Ralph R. Weaver was a Cadet, Cana- 
dian Royal Air Service, Toronto, Canada. 
Has now returned to his work at Harvard. 

Arthur J. Young has been in the 
S. A. T. C, but has now resumed his work 
at the Boston Univ. Law School. 

A. Osgood Young, Jr., a student at 
W. A. 1912-13, has recently received his 
discharge, having been a year and a half 
in France in the Amm. Train. Home 
Add., 26 Institute Rd., Worcester. 

Also in service: E. H. Bright (France), 
J. L. Cody, H. A. Crane, L. P. Naphen, 
T. H. Lannon, H. L. Owen, J. Albert 
Stephenson, W. J. Stevens, Corp. G. S. 
Warfield. 

And in S. A. T. C: J. Dale, Dart- 
mouth, V. J. Girardi, Harvard, C. C. 
Kerwin, Dartmouth, I.E. Manning, 
W. P. I., W. H. Milroy, Yale; G. B. 
Searls, Williams; W. M. Slack, Dart- 
mouth. 

1918 

Roll of Honor: Trueman E. Kile, died 
Dec. 6, 1918; Vincent W. Marshall, died 
of pneumonia at Ann Arbor, Mich., Oct. 
15, 1918. See page 33. Lieut. Chfford G. 
Park, died of pneumonia, in France, Sept. 
1918. See page 33. 

Harold J. Begley, enrolled here 1914-15, 
from Spencer, Mass., enlisted in the Naval 
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Hingham. Mass. was transferred to Bum- 
kin Island, and while here passed the 
entrance examinations for the Harvard 
Ens. Sch., but took through preference 
service at the submarine base. Nahant, 
Mass. He remained here from Oct. 12 
until after the armistice was signed. Was 
later at Hingham again. Add., 17 Ar- 
lington St., Worcester, Mass. 

John F. Davis passed examinations for 
air service Dec, 1917, was called to M. I.T. 
Training School June 15, 1918, and was 
transferred to Hazlehurst Field, No. 1, 
Mineola, L. I., Sept. 5. He now has the 
rank of a Corp. Perm. Add., Box 85, 
Wellesley, Mass. 

Herbert L Emanuelson, Yale Naval 
Training Unit, writes: "I am now in the 
uniform of the U. S. Navj'. Yale is no 
more. That organization has for the 
time passed out of existence and we 
are now in a Naval Camp, with the most 
strict discipline that I have ever seen. 
Worcester is not 'in it' with Berkeley 
Oval for discipline, but I can thank the 
old school that it is not hard for me to live 
up to the severe rules of the Navy." 
"You ought to see how we jump in glee 
when we see another Worcester man here. 
'It's a grand and glorious feeling'." 

Colin G. FinleV; last reported by us at 
Camp Wadsworth, has been overseas 
since May. He is in the Signal Corps, 
105th U. S. Inf., recently in Flanders, 
and has seen hard fighting. 

Chester W. Gaylord, enrolled here in 
fall of 1915, is with the Naval Res. 
Band at Newport, R. I. Add., 45 Shat- 
tuck St., Worcester, Mass 

Thurlow C. Haunton entered the Naval 
Force June 14, and was called July 2. 
Was in training at Hingham, Mass., 
Bumkin Island, Wakefield for rifle prac- 
tice, and then for six weeks at U. S. Naval 
Base at Rockland, Me Was then in the 
Brown University Naval Unit. 

John W. Head, Jr., enrolled here 1914- 
16, enlisted in the Navy Oct.. 1917, and 
was called to active duty in Nov Was on 



various receiving .ships, and on July 27, 
1918, was detailed to the Cost Inspection 
Dept at the Newport News Shipbuilding 
and Dry Dock Co. with rank of store- 
keeper. Released from active duty De- 
cember 19, to go back to college. Add., 
65 Wallingford Road, Brighton, Mass. 

Richard Heywood has cabled since the 
armistice that he is safe and well; he was 
still in the French Ambulance Service. 

Frank T. Hodgdon, Jr., enrolled here 
Jan. -June 1918, was in the Dartmouth 
unit, S. A. T. C, from Oct. 1 to Dec. 16, 
1918. Add., 1000 Hill St., Hannibal, Mo. 

Lyle L. Kirkland has been in the 
Central O. T. S. of Camp Lee, Va. 

Fred T. Kracke, enrolled here Sept. 
1913-Oct. 1915, served as cadet on 
U. S. S. St. Paul, then attended the Sea- 
man's Institute, Noank, Conn., studying 
shipbuilding, and was then transferred to 
the O. T. C. at Pelham Bay, N. Y., being 
rated a Qmst., U. S. N. Add., 11 Ken- 
more PL, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

William A. Lester, Jr., enlisted in the 
Navy as a Radio Electrician. We under- 
stand that his call to active service had 
not come at the enfl of the war. Is now in 
Brown. 

John S. Mather, enrolled here 1915-16, 
enlisted July 28, 1917 in the Navy, and 
has been in transport service since Jan. 
1918. Now boatswain's mate on U. S. S. 
Bridge. Add.. 22 Monroe Street, Con- 
cord, Mass. 

William H. McCrillis enlisted in the 
Marine Corps in Oct., 1918, and was sent 
to the Marine Barracks at Paris Island, 
S. C. Has re-entered the academy. 

E. Ross Mix, enrolled here 1914-15, 
was drafted Aug. 27, 1918, went to Camp 
Gordon, and was chosen Sept. 22 as one of 
16 from his company to be transferred to 
Camp Hancock, Ga., where he was in 
Dec. in the 153d School Co. Add.. 
Ellenburg, N. Y. 

Joseph S. Murphy graduated from the 
Princeton Aviation School Oct. 2, and 
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cadet in Co. F. Add.. School St., Sand- 
wich, Mass. 

Harold L. Neiter, enrolled here Sept. 
1916-March 1917, from Sheridan, Wyo., 
has been in the Tank Corps at Camp 
Colt, Gettysburg, Pa. 

Elmo M. Parsons enlisted at the be- 
ginning of the war in Co. F, 102nd Inf., 
and was raised to the rank of Corp. in 
June. He went overseas in Oct.,. 1917. 
His detachment was shot to peices and he 
was transferred last Aug. to the position 
of Clerk in Pershing's First Army. He 
was on the Mexican border from June 22 
to Oct. 23, 1916 

Stafford H. Percival enlisted July 23, 
191S, in the Naval Res., and was called to 
active duty Aug. 9, and sent to the Train- 
ing Sta. at Newport, R. I. On Nov. 1 he 
was transferred to the Officers' Material 
Sch. at Newport in the Merchant Marine 
Service. Add., 238 Warren Ave., Brock- 
ton, Mass. 

Harold E. Pratt, after his course at 
Plattsburg, entered the Central O. T. S. 
at Camp Lee, Va., Sept. 13. 1918., and 
finished the course in Dec. He is in the 
20th Co., was home on a furlough the 
first part of Jen., and visited the Academy. 
Expects discharge soon and will return 
to the Univ. of Maine. 

John P. Robinson, enrolled here 1914- 
15, enlisted in the Naval Aviation, June 
24, 1918 Trained first at Gulfport, Miss., 
and since Dec. 9 at Pensacola. Is 3rd CI. 
Qmst. in the dirigible .section. Add., 8 
Cottage St., Ware, Mass. 

Edward J. Ryan, enrolled here 1914-15, 
entered service Nov. 24, 1917. Was at 
Camp Devens until Feb. 2, 1918, when he 
was ordered overseas. He was then 
placed in Co. B, 29th Engmeers. Add., 
15 Wyman St., Worcester, Mass 

Maurice Saunders, Jr., went in course 
from his summer work at the Great Lakes 
Naval Training Station to the Dart- 
mouth Naval Unit. He received there 
the highest aptitude mark in his company. 



Albert A. Scott has been this fall in the 
S. A. T. C. at Norwich Univ. Northfield, 
Vermont. He sailed for Turkey on the 
Pensacola, Jan. 23, 1919. His address 
there is to be care of W. W. Peet, Bible 
House, Constantinople, Turkey. Home 
Add., 321 Fairmount Street, Fitchburg, 
Mass. 

Foster L. Small entered the U. S. Coast 
Guard Acad., New London^ Conn. Aug. 9, 
1917, and resigned on account of sickness, 
May 30, 1918. A few weeks later, June 9, 
he entered the Merchant Marine and was 
assigned to a training ship at Boston, and 
became Instructor of Deck. He was 
discharged Dec. 9. Add., Sagamore, 
Mass. 

G. Sidney Stanton, recently of the 
Harvard Naval Training Unit, was made 
Petty Officer. Although he has been dis- 
charged from service he will probably not 
enter Harvard again until next year. 

Charles Starbuck, Jr., was sent from the 
Jesse Ketchum School of Toronto, Can., 
Oct. 1, to the Cadet Wing at Long Branch, 
Ontario. After completing here a pre- 
liminary course of two months, he was 
transferred back to the Univ. of Toronto 
where he was assigned to D Squadron in 
the Royal Air Force. 

Burr M. Staub received his first gold 
chevron in Nov. for six months' service 
overseas. 

James E. Sullivan, enrolled here 1915- 
16, left Georgetown Univ. and enlisted, 
and was sent to an O. T. C, April 9, 1917. 
He is in France in the Air Service, a 2nd 
Lieut. 

Jesse B. Thomas, after a visit home on a 
furlough from his Red Cross Ambulance 
work in Italy, reached France on his re- 
turn overseas about Oct. 14. 

Eliot M. Warner, enrolled here Sept. 
1916-Mar. 1917, enlisted in the Marine 
Service, Oct. 11, 1918, and was assigned 
to Co. 374, Paris Island, S. C. 

John Winslow, of the Harvard 
S. A. T. C, was among the 80 men se- 
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ized Crom the sons of former Harvard 
graduates. 

Also in service: R L. Ackennan, W. A. 
Daniels, Lieut. L. B. Holden^ M. Killars, 
N. B. Morse, E. 1. Tohnan 

And in the S A. T. C: Corp. P. Alger, 
Harvard; G. W. Anderson, Dartmouth; 
T. S. Anderson, Dartmouth; R. Bowler, 
Harvard; S. W. Boyd, M. I. T.; Corp. W. 
B. Brockelman, W. P. I.; W. Chadwick, 
Colgate; Vernon C. Cole, M. I.T.; A. L. 
Jewett, Harvard; A. L. John.son, M. I. T. 
Naval; Corp. O. C. King, Univ. of Penn.; 
R. L. Long, Cornell; K. D. MacColl, 
Yale Naval; Sergt. P. W. Meade, Dart- 
mouth Naval; W. B. Reynolds, Tufts; 
P. M. Schmitt, W. P. L; E. Seaver, 
Harvard; J. D. Scott, Harvard; G. R. 
Shanklin, Cornell ;H. T. Smith, W. P. L; 
R. C. Springborn, Dartmouth; C. R. 
Stephens, W. P. L; A. Stern, Yale; F. H. 
Twombly, Tufts; H. W. Williams, Mid- 
dlebury. 

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Arlon D. Albee entered the Amherst 
S. A. T. C, Oct. 10, 1918, and was trans- 
ferred Oct. 19 to the Central O. T. S., 
Camp Lee, Va. He received commission 
as 2nd Lieut. Inf., Jan. 5, and was dis- 
charged and placed on the reserve list. 
He has returned to his studies as a senior 
at the Academy. 

Charles E. Bailey has received an ap- 
pointment witli the Armenian Relief Ex- 
pedition, and sailed Jan. 13, 1919. Pre- 
viou.'^ly he had been at sea on a training 
ship under the U. S. Shipping Board with 
headquarters at East Boston. 

Ernest D. Baxter, after training at 
Bumkin Island, was on patrol duty ofT the 
New England coast from August till Jan. 
2. Has returned to the Academy. 

Cornelius J. Curtin, Jr., has been in 
military service. Is now discharged and 
is working for his father. Add.. 117 So. 
Grove St.. East Orange, N. J. 

Chester G. Dadmun, enrolled here 1913- 
17, is in his father's shop in Worcester. 
He was accepted for service and was called 



to rejiort at Camp Lee, Va., a day or two 
before the armistice was signed. Add.. 
34 Oread St , Worcester. 

Earl H. Dewing, a student here 1916-17, 
is trumpeter, Co. L, 11th Reg. U. S. Mar- 
ines, in France. Add., 6 Hampton Street, 
W^ellesley, Mass. 

Walter B. Evarts, enrolled here 1916- 
17, is 2nd Lieut., Officers' Res. Aviation 
Service. He enlisted in the Signal Corps. 
Jan. 9, 1918, and after training at Kelly 
Field, at Dayton, Ohio, and at Eberts 
Field, Lonope, Ark., he was sent to 
Austin, Tex., where he was in December. 
Add., 123 Lincoln St., Meriden, Conn. 

Harold D. Gagnon has been in the 
Brown Naval Unit. His work on the 
football eleven attracted wide attention. 
He has been mustered out with the Brown 
Unit, and has entered Holy Cross. 

Kenneth B. Hurd, enrolled here 1915- 

16, enlLsted in the Naval Aviation. Dec. 29, 

1917, and was called Feb 27, 1918. 
Trained at Bay Shore, L. I.,unt'l Dec. 9, 
when transfer was made to Brunswick, Ga. 
Is Qmst., 1st cl. Add., 3^2 Libertv St., 
Concord, N. H. 

Stanley W. Lang, enrolled here Jan.- 
Dec, 1917, enlisted Aug. 6, 1918, went 
to Newi)ort in Co. 3, 4th Reg., Radio 
Service, where he remained in December. 
Add., Edgewood, Pittsfield, Mass. 

John B. Lightfoot, enrolled here 1915- 

17, received commission as 2nd Lieut. 
Sept. 16, 1918, on completing the 
course in the S. A T. C. at Plattsburg. 
Assigned by War Dep't. to Syracuse 
Univ as military instructor, and now 
with 30 other commissioned officers in 
command of the S. A. T. C. there, an 
acting captain, Co. D. Add., Derby, 
Conn. 

Edward H. Mclntyre, enrolled here 
1916-17, has been in military service 
since last August. Add., Bethel, Vt. 

Herbert K. Meek, enrolled here Sept. 
1915-Mar., 1917, entered service Sept. 13, 

1918, in Squad. A, Flight 5, Royal Air 
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discharge Nov. 5. Add., 23 Granite St., 
Whitinsville. Mass. Has a brother in the 
junior class at the Academy. 

E. Donald Pope and Ernest E. Pope 
have been in the Amherst S. A. T. C, 
but now have resumed their work at 
the Academy. 

Howard C. Read, enrolled here Sept., 
1915-March, 1916, enlisted in the Field 
Art. in Dec, 1917. Was called May 1, 
1918, and was sent for training to Prince- 
ton, N. J. In June he was transferred 
to the Field Art., and sent to Fort Han- 
cock, Ga , where he remained in Dec, a 
Corp. in the 8th Co., Field Art. Add., 
8 Edwards St., Haverhill, Mass. 

George W. Van Dommele, enrolled 
here 1915-16 from Hillsboro, N. H., 
enlisted May 1, 1917, in the Coast Art.; 
was at Portsmouth, N. H., Camp Devens., 
and the Water Shops at Springfield, 
Mass. Discharged from service Feb. 18, 
1918, for physical disability. 

Andrew C. Wallace, Jr., enrolled here 
Sept.; 1916-March, 1917, has been an 
in.structor in the S. A. T C. Univ. of 
Denver, Denver, Colo. Was first in the 
Aviation, serving nine months at Camp 
Stever, and was commissioned there as 
2nd Lieut. Released June 11, 1918, to 
join Naval Res., in which he now holds 
the rank of Chief Petty Officer. Has 
been accepted as Midshipman at Anna- 
polis. Add., Beuna Vista, Colo. 

Also in service: J. J. Ferri, A. S. Harris, 
E. C. Shuttleworth, R. M. Smith, G. G. 
Tenny. 

And in S. A. T. C: C. Garst, Dart- 
mouth; W. Garst, Dartmouth; R. W. 
Johnston, Colgate; H. D. Mahoney, 
M. I. T.; E. L. Pearson, Norwich Univ ; 
W. H. Peck, Northeastern Coll.; B. F. 
Rassieur, Dartmouth; F. H. Reed, Jr., 
Mass. Ag. Coll.;G.L.Sackett, Dartmouth. 

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Clarence E. Blodgett, 2nd Lieut. j 
American Air Service in France, is now a 
pilot in a Salmson Squad., 258 Aero, 
whose work is reconnaissance, observa- 



tion, and photography. His head- 
quarters, Jan. 8, were at Toul. 

Percy N. Ford, enrolled here 1916-17 
from New Haven, Conn., is in some sort 
of war service. Add., 140 Cottage St., 
New Haven, Conn. 

Hugh C. Frederick, enrolled here 1917- 
18, has been unable to enter Naval 
Aviation service as he desired, on account 
of his preferred occupation with his father 
on a large farm, raising cattle. Add., 
R. R. 1, Hamilton, Ohio. 

Luther C Freethy enlisted in the Navy 
in May, at the Newport Training Station. 
Was swimming instructor until the last of 
Aug. He then went to N. Y., and was 
assigned to the U. S. S. Buitenzorg and 
started on first trip to France Sept. 11; 
started on second trip, Nov. 6. After 
release from duty will resume position as 
superintendent of the W. O. & N. W. 
Talcott Mfg. Plant. Perm Add., 53 Con- 
gress Ave., Providence, R. I. 

Oswald W. Leach, after making several 
trips on a naval vessel and having been 
promoted to Acting Capt. of a gun crew, 
has been assigned to diilling and training 
gun crews at the Naval Base, Norfolk, Va, 
He is connected with Armed Guard Crew 
183. Add., 571 Orange St., New Haven, 
Conn. 

Edward A. Parker, enrolled here Jan.- 
June 1917, has been in war service. Add , 
44 Washington St., Newton Lower Falls, 
Ma.ss. 

Donald L. Ross,. Jr., has been in France 
with the A. E. F., and is now with the 
Army of Occupation at Coblenz, Ger- 
many. He is in the Med. Corps., Evacua- 
tion Hospital, No. 9. Perm. Add., 430 
W^est 119th St., New York City. 

Howard L. Taylor has been at Camp 
Morrison, Va., in the Hdq. Detach. Sect., 
Aviation. 

G. Francis Whitcomb enlisted in the 
Motor Tran.sport Division, Sept., 1918, 
but was not called into sevice. Add., 6 
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Also in service: A W. Briddon (France), 
C. F. Poole, Jr. 

And in S. A. T. C : W. D. Buckley, 
Holy Cross; W. H. Latimer, Wentwortli 
Inst. 

1921 

All)ert Dawson has been in the Mer- 
chant Marine since Aug. Is now detailed 
to the U. S. S. Meade, a transport. 

William F. Myers is now listed as 1st 
Class Coppersmith, U. 8. Navy. New- 
port, R. I. 

Frank H. Washburn. Jr., entered the 
Air Service with qualifications in two 
trades, was assigned to the 344th Aero 
Squadron. Garden City, L. I., and was 
scheduled to sail about the time the war 
ended. Has been at his home, Holden, 
Mass., awaiting further assignments. 

James Watt, Jr., American Ambulance 
Corps, 25th Div., was gassed on the Ver- 
dun front, June 2.5, 1918. He contracted 
tuberculosis and was sent back to this 
country Aug. 22. In Nov., his condition 
was reported fair. Add., 251 West 100th 
St., New York City. 

Also in service: L. M. Lynch. ' 

Ex=f acuity 

Prof. Herbert D. Foster, now head of 
the Department of History at Dartmouth 
College, sailed Feb. 3 for France to engage 
in army Y. M. C. A. work. He will have 
his permanent headquarters in Paris, and 
will have charge of all the history work in 
connection with the regular courses of in- 
struction which the Association is planning 
for the soldiers while they are waiting to be 
sent home. He plans to remain in this 
work as long as there is need. During the 
past summer he lectured regularly to the 
Dartmouth Training Unit on the aims of 
the war, and also had charge of the history 
work given to the Dartmouth S. A. T. C. 
this past fall. 

Dr. Paul E. Sabine's address in Wash- 
ington, D. C. is 1010 No. Carolina Ave. 
Since June 3, 1918, he has been engaged in 
experimental work in naval aircraft. 



George S. Dole, an Ensign, has been in 
command of one of the submarine chasers 
operating in European waters. He was 
mentioned in November for promotion for 
efficient service. 

Donald B. MacMillan volunteered his 
services some time ago for Naval Aviation 
work and was called to the Navial Training 
Station at Chicago. He is now back at 
his work writing and lectiu'ing. 

Lieut. Guerdon N. Messer, who resigned 
his position as Physical Director of Wor- 
cester Academy two years ago in order to 
enter the service of New York as Assistant 
Supervisor on the Military Training Com- 
mission, only to be drafted within a few 
months into the army at Camp Devens, 
was transferred early in November from 
Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Ga., to Camp 
Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio, to serve as 
Director of Physical Training and Athle- 
tics at the latter camp. Mr. Messer, 
after securing his officer's commission at 
Camp Devens, was sent to Camp Gordon, 
where his ability as an organizer and 
director of athletics very quickly mani- 
fested itself He was given a warm wel- 
come at Camp Sherman last November, 
whither his reputation had preceded him. 
Hardly had he completed the organization 
of the athletics at the latter camp, how- 
ever, when the signing of the armistice re- 
sulted in a rapid mustering out of the 95th 
division there, including Lieut. Messer 
himself He is now back in his former 
position at Albany, N. Y. 

Charles Jones, who resigned his instruc- 
torship in Greek and Latin last June in 
order to enter the service of the Y.M.C.A. 
in France, was assigned to duty with an 
organization known as the Foyer du 
Soldat, whose purpose is the training of 
young French officers in American sports. 
This work is carried on at the Ecole Nor- 
male Militaire de Gymnastique, situated 
at Joinville-le-Pont, department of the 
Seine, about ten miles from Paris. In 
spite of the armistice the work is still 
going on, about three hundred officers 



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being instructed at one time, these in turn 
making way for another simihir grouj). 
After the completion of the course these 
officers become instructors in j^hysical 
training and sjjorts at various French 
army centers. Mr. Jones is known simph' 
as the Instructeur Americain. A still 
later word from him states that he has 
been sent to Algiers for similar service. 

Charles W. Bradlee, Jr., instructor in 
Manual Training until a year ago, has been 
serving for nearly a year as a Y. M. C. A. 
secretary in France Since the signing of 
the armistice he has let it be known that 
his work has all been carried on in the 
vicinity of Rheims, thus affording him the 
opportunity of getting into the thick of the 
fighting. During his hazardous labors he 
has been twice wounded, both times in the 
face. As a result of the second wound 
he will probab.y carry a piece of German 
shrapnel in his head for the rest of his life. 
Now that demol)ilization is taking place 
he expects soon to be given his discharge. 
At present he is vmdecided as to whether 
to return to the United States, or to re- 
main in France and engage in reconstruc- 
tion work. 

John W. Forrest, Instructor in Science 
from 1916 to 1918, was drafted into the 
army and sent to Camp Upton, Yaphank, 
Long Island, just as school ojjened in 
September. After seven weeks at that 
camp, during which he experienced an at- 
tack of influenza, he was transferred to 
Delhi, N. Y., to serve as clerk to the local 
draft board. His assignment to that 
particular locality was doubtless made be- 
cause it placed him in close proximity to 
many relatives and friends. In December 



he was sent back to Camp Upton, and 
there mustered out shortly after Jan. 1. 

William L. Langer enlisted in the 23d 
Eng. last winter. He was finallv called to 
C-o. E of the 30th Eng. and assigned to the 
1st Cas Regt. Went across in June, then 
having the rank of Sergt. A letter from 
him in August states that he was about to 
go to the front. His home address is 16 
Carver Street, Cambridge, Mass. Is now 
(March 1) back home, and will resume his 
work at Harvard. 

Percival M. Symonds, who served as an 
Instructor in Mathematics last year, has 
been recently engaged in the Ordnance 
Proving Service at Camp Aberdeen, 
Maryland. His work has consisted of the 
drawing up of mathematical tables, based 
upon actual firing tests, by which the 
range-finding for the various classes of 
artillery could afterward be controlled. 
More recently he has been mustered out of 
the United States service, and has ac- 
cepted a position in the statistical de- 
partment of the John Hancock Life 
Insurance Co. at Boston. 

Major Frank W. Cavanaugh, our former 
well-known football coach, has been in a 
French hospital recovering from shrapnel 
wounds received in action, which l)adly 
disfigured his face. When Cavanaugh 
went overseas with the 102nd Field Art. 
he held a lieutenant's commission; shortly 
after the 26th Division arrived in France 
he was promoted to a captaincy. After 
the fighting at Chateau Thierry last 
August, he served as Acting Major until 
late October when he was wounded. About 
the time the armistice was declared he 
received his Major's commission. 



SUMMARY OF MEN IN SERVICE 
BY BRANCHES OF SERVICE 

Infantry, 108; Naval Reserve, 92; Aviation, 90; Field Artillery, 60; Engineers, 56; 
Medical, 35; Quartermaster, 33; Technical, 31; Ambulance, 24; Administrative, 23; 
Ammunition Train, 23; Coast Artillery, 18; Ordnance, 15; Marines, 14; Regular Navy, 
14; Y. M. C. A., 7; Gas, 7; Tanks, 5; Red Cross, 4; Bands, 3; Chaplains, 2; Diplo- 
matic, 2; Veterinary, 2; Forestry, 2; S. A. T. C, 62. Total, 736. 

These totals, and also those on the next page, include a few who finished their service 
some time ago and who thus are not named in the foregoing lists by classes. Each man 
is classified in the branch in which he was engaged at latest reports, no regard being paid 
to any previous Ijranch from which he might have been transferred. 



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BY 


CLASSES 








Class 


Gradua 


In Service 

tes NoQ- 


-Gradcates 


Total 


In Oversea 

Service 


Holding 
Commission 


Roll of 
Honor 


1887 


1 




— 




1 




1 


— 




1889 


2 









2 




— 


— 




1890 


4 




— 




4 




1 


1 




1891 


1 




2 




3 




2 


2 




1892 


2 




2 




4 




2 


2 




1893 


1 




1 




2 




— 


2 




1895 


3 




1 




4 




3 


2 




1896 


7 




1 




8 




2 


5 




1897 


3 




2 




5 




2 


2 


1 


1898 


3 




1 




4 




1 


3 




1899 


2 




2 




4 




1 


3 




1900 


3 




3 




6 




5 


4 




1901 


2 




2 




4 




3 


2 




1902 


2 




5 




7 




5 


5 


1 


1903 


1 




5 




6 




3 


5 




190-t 


5 




3 




8 




5 


6 


1 


1905 


5 




7 




12 




8 


11 


1 


1906 


7 




7 




14 




9 


9 


3 


1907 


11 




5 




16 




8 


8 


1 


1908 


10 




12 




22 




12 


13 


1 


1909 


15 




15 




30 




16 


16 


4 


1910 


7 




12 




19 




9 


9 


2 


1911 


14 




20 




34 




17 


14 


1 


1912 


16 




29 




45 




25 


17 


1 


1913 


21 




38 




59 




27 


34 


1 


1914 


23 




36 




59 




32 


22 




1915 


29 


(26) 


40 




69 


(66) 


32 


17 


2 


1916 


25 


(21) 


68 


(64) 


93 


(85) 


36 


19 


2 


1917 


23 


(19) 


53 


(49) 


76 


(68) 


25 


7 


2 


1918 


28 


(7) 


38 


(30) 


66 


(37) 


10 


3 


2 


1919 


— 




32 


(20) 


32 


(20) 


1 


4 


1 


1920 


— 




13 


(11) 


13 


(11) 


4 


1 




1921 


— 




5 




5 




2 


— 





Total 276 (244) 460 (430) 736 (674) 309 248 27 

Note. Figures in parentheses at the right of numbers above give the corresponding 
corrected number when those credited from the S. A. T. C. are deducted, a number more 
significant for comparison from many points of view. 

The total numljer in the S. A. T. C. who were not given higher assignment, is 62, 
distributed by classes: 1915,3; 1916,8; 1917,8; 1918,29; 1919,12; 1920,2. 

NOTABLE PERCENTAGES 

Percentage of those in service receiving commissions 37 

Percentage of graduates in service receiving commissions . 51 

Percentage of those in service sent overseas .... 46 

Of recent classes, 1911 had 48% of its graduates in service; 1912, 59%; 1913, 64%; 
1914, 74%; 1915, 69%; 1916, 68%; 1917, 63%; 1918, 21%. 

Note. In computing these percentages members of S. A. T. C. were disregarded. 



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NEWS OF THE ALUMNI 

ATTENTION 

Each and every reader of The Bulletin is earnestly asked to co=operate 
in making this department complete and interesting. Your part is to keep 
us informed, primarily concerning yourself, and incidentally concerning 
others. You are interested in getting news about the other fellow; he 
feels the same about you. A certain number of facts reach us through 
personal visits of old fellows to the school, through casual correspondence 
that comes to the school office, and through the daily and college press. 
For the greater part, however, we must rely upon direct word from the 
individual alumnus. 

To tempt you to give us this co=operation we are enclosing a loose slip 
in this issue. Will not each one return it with some news? We want 
business changes, new addresses, offices, and honors, vital statistics, 
and the various other items that interest you in the case of the other 
fellow. Give definite names, dates, etc., when possible. Newspaper 
clippings are especially helpful. Give us a hint, if that is all you have, 
and we will follow it up. The slip enclosed is adapted on one side for 
those in war service; on the reverse, for the civilian. 

Mail your response to Fred D. Aldrich, Worcester Academy, Worcester, 
Mass. 

DO IT NOW! 



BY CLASSES 

1863 Mrs. C. C. Cable of 862 Eustis 
St., St. Paul, Minn., called at the Acad- 
emy the past summer to see the present 
location of the school attended by her 
father, the late William H. Cheney, who 
was at Worcester Academy, 1862-63, 
coming here from Hart, Mich 

1864 William L, Eddy of Girard,, 
Kansas, is one of the comparatively small 
number of Academy men of the sixties 
whose names have been on our mailina 
list. We were hapj)y to receive recently 
the following message of response from 
him addressed' to the present students of 
the school. "I don't know as this will 
interest anyone, except perhaps because 
of ancient date. The school when I 
attended was at the corner of Belmont 
and Summer Streets. When the school 
closed in Feb., 1864, I enlisted in the 25th 
Mass. Reg. Vol., was wounded severely 
near Petersburg, Va., and was discharged 
in Philadelphia, Sept. 25, 1865. Two 



years later, Oct.. 1867, I took Horace 
Greeley's advice, 'Go west, young man, 
and grow up with the country. ' My 
train came to a stop at Lawrence, Kansas, 
I got off, took the stage 125 miles south- 
east, bought land in what was then 
known as the Cherokee strip, very well 
watered and very fertile, with very few 
settlers. Indians and buffalo were just 
moving back' westward. I went into the 
cattle business and have handled cattle 
more or less ever since. It was hard 
sledding the first few years, but I took a 
partner in the form of a little Kansas 
school-marm. Since then times have 
been better. We have a family, three 
sons and one daughter, all doing well. 
Three live in the state, and one son is a 
superintendent of manual training in 
Detroit. Wife and I live on the old 
homestead first taken, one mile out from 
the city of Girard. Many thanks for the 
BuLL,ETT!v. and for the little booklet 
which I received." 



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1876 Rev. George H. Cummings of 
Thorndike, Mass., has four sons and one 
daughter. All the sons are in military 
service, three of them being Lieutenants. 

1876 Hon. Webster Thayer, judge of 
the Superior Court of Massachusetts, who 
was ill for several months, is well again 
and has returned to active work on the 
bench. He has a son in the junior class 
at the Academy. 

1886 Mrs. S W. Boardman (Nellie 
Thayer) writes Jan. 2, 1919: "You will 
remember Mr. Irving T. Boardman, my 
son, who called on you last summer and 
applied for a position as teacher. Soon 
after that he was called in the draft and 
sent to Camp Upton, Long Island, N. Y. 
While there he did considerable work at 
the Y. M. C. A. in connection with the 
chaplain and was in line for a promotion, 
but the epidemic was raging in the camp 
and proved fatal to him." 

1887 Paul B. Morgan sailed in Dec- 
ember on a business trip to Europe. He 
has been active in raising war funds in 
Worcester, and was also appointed to 
serve as one of the three advisors to work 
with the draft appeal board of Worcester. 

1889 Rev. Edwin B. Dolan has left 
the pastorate of the First Baptist Church 
of Holyoke, Mass., after seven years of 
service, his resignation taking effect 
Sept. 30. The next day he became Gen- 
eral Missionary to the Aided Churches of 
the Mass. Baptist State Convention. He 
has about 75 churches under his super- 
vision and travels all over the state. As 
a sample of his migratory powers he writes, 
"Last night (Friday), I was in Williams- 
town, Sunday, I shall be in Wales, and 
the following Sunday in Nantucket." 
He is living at 21 Lebanon Street, Win- 
chester, and his office is at 708 Ford 
Building, Boston. W^e hear that his 
parishioners at Holyoke were "so glad" 
to have him go that they gave him one 
hundred dollars in gold to speed him on 
his way. 



1890 Albert E. Bailey's work as 
educational director at the First Baptist 
Church, Worcester, gave him the oppor- 
tunity this Christmas to write a short 
pageant-drama called, "The Shattering 
of Thor. " It was presented very effec- 
tively by his Bible School. The theme 
was the transformation of the heathen 
religion of the Northland into Christianity 
and the final destruction of the heathen 
spirit of war as typified in the over- 
throw of the Kaiser. 

Bailey is giving a course of twenty 
lectures this winter at the Newton 
Theological Institute on Sunday School 
pedagogy; and he directs the Worcester 
Community School of Religion, besides 
teaching two courses in it each session. 

1891 Mrs. Michael E. Fletcher of 
109 Hutchison Street, Montreal, Canada, 
replies to a query concerning her sons, 
that the older, Durlin, who enlisted two 
weeks after the war was declared, leaving 
at the age of 18, his first year at Acadia 
University, served as a stretcher bearer 
until he was wounded, and then on re- 
covery entered the Field Dressing Station 
and worked up to be in charge of the 
dispensary with his unit. He is now in 
Germany with the rank of Sergt. The 
younger son enlisted when he was 17 in 
the Inf., but was transferred at his late 
father's request to the Field Ambulance 
in order to be with his brother. Last 
Sept. he was wounded in the back, but 
not seriously, as he had on four German 
belts at the time. His mother expects 
them home in March, and hopes they will 
be able to return to school. 

1892 Robert H. Fletcher is in the 
Lancaster Hospital, Brookline, Mass. 
He has had to give up all work but hopes 
later to get out again, but only after a 
,ong treatment. 

1892 Rev. Frank A. Lombard is 
having this year his Sabbatical year from 
his work on the faculty of the Doshisha 
Univ., Kyoto, Japan. He is making his 
headquarters at The Grafton, Newton 



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Center, Mass.. spending some time in 
work in the libraries of Boston and 
vicinity. He visited the Academy in 
November. 

1892 Cohi W. Meacham is with Sears, 
Roebuck & Co., Chicago. His address 
is 3830 Adams St. 

1893 The indulgence of the Class of 
1893 is again asked for a further post- 
ponement of its quarter century statistics. 
The great amount of matter concerning 
military service had made it seem 
advisable to omit them. It is hoped that 
nothing will prevent their appearing in the 
March issue. 

1893 Roland R. Cutler writes on 
Nov. 30 that he had been seriously ill with 
nervous indigestion, but was beginning to 
improve at the date of writing. 

1893 Capt. Edwin P. Grosvenor was 
married Oct. 29, to Miss Thelma Cudlip 
of New York City, daughter of the late 
Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Cudlip of Rich- 
mond, Va. The ceremony was performed 
at Wild Acres, Bethesda, Md., the 
country home of the groom's brother, 
Gilbert H. Grosvenor, '93. The bride 
was given in marriage by ex-president 
William H. Taft. Capt. Grosvenor is in 
the Military Intelligence Bureau in 
Washington. 

1894 George C. Beals' address has 
been changed to Room 77, Ecjuitable 
Bldg., Boston, Mass. 

1894 Rev. Carleton A. Burgess was 
the preacher of the annual sermon at the 
meeting of the Boston South Assoc, of 
Baptist Churches held at Roxbury, Mass., 
Sept. 25. His theme was "Co-operation 
Necessary to Success in the Work of the 
Kingdom." Mr. Burgess was elected 
moderator of the Association for the 
coming year. 

1896 Horace M. Hovey is now at the 
DeWitt Clinton High School, 59th St. 
and 10th Avenue, N. Y. City. 

1899 Ralph Abercrombie was married 
Nov. 2 to Mrs. Elizabeth Giddings 
Johnson, widow of Tristam B. Johnson, 



'98. The wedding took place at the home 
of the bride's father, Prof. Franklin H. 
Giddings of Columbia University. Chap- 
lain R. C. Knox of Columbia officiated. 
The bridegroom was attended by his 
brother, Daniel W. Abercrombie, Jr., '05, 
and the bride by her little daughter, 
Elizabeth Alden Johnson, as flower girl. 
The couple are to live for the present at 
202 West 74th Street, N. Y. City. 

1899 Capt. Stanley B. Hall was 
married last May to Miss Anna Bristol 
of New York State. A few weeks after 
Caj^t. Hall left with his company for 
oversea service. 

1899 Clark H. Miner left the United 
States for China last April, in the interests 
of the Western Electric Co., and has been 
made the general manager of its represent- 
ative company there, The China Electric 
Co., Ltd. His residence is in Pekin, 
China, 3, Shih Chia Hutung. 

1899 Orville Barker Van Duser died 
May 2, in Rochester, N. Y. He was sud- 
denly taken very ill with pneumonia com- 
plicated with peritonitis, while on a trip 
as traveling salesman in his work, and 
went directly to his brother's residence in 
Rochester where he died after a week's 
illness. The funeral services were held at 
the hoine of his aunt in Newark, N. Y., 
where formerly he had made his home for 
many years. 

He was born in Newark, N. Y.,in 1880, 
the second son of S. B. Van Duser. He 
was a cousin of Ralph E. Barker, '95 and 
Merle T. Barker, '99, and through their 
influence he entered W. A. in the fall of 
1895. He remained here for three years, 
rooming in Davis Hall. He went into 
the dry goods business with his father at 
Newark, and continued this association 
for more than ten years. He then became 
connected with the Syracuse (N. Y.) Dry 
Goods Company, and represented them 
in the northern part of the state. For the 
past two years the family has lived in 
Liverpool, N. Y., near Syracuse. He was 
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Methodist Church there, and was also a 
member of the Masonic fraternity and the 
Sons of Veterans. 

He was married July 5, 1905, to Miss 
Louise Norris of Sodus, and she survives 
him with three children, Norris aged 10, 
Damon aged 8, and Ellen aged 6. He 
visited the Academy a few years ago for 
the first time since he was a pupil here, 
and was much interested in noting the 
changes that had taken place on the cam- 
pus, and in recalling his old associates in 
the Main Building, to whom the news of 
his death will bring great sadness. The 
words that have come to us "all that a 
man should be," are what would be ex- 
pected by those who knew the upright, 
manly, and cheery fellow here in the 
nineties. 

1900 John Daniels resigned in Feb., 
1918, as Director of the Children's Home 
Bureau of the Dept. of Public Charities 
in New York City. He soon after be- 
came publicity secretary of the National 
Tuberculosis Association, with head- 
quarters in New York. Early in Novem- 
ber last he became chief of the Division 
of Neighborhood Agencies and Organiza- 
tion of the country-wide movement for 
the Study of Methods of Americaniza- 
tion. Their work is being conducted 
with the financial support of the Carnegie 
Corporation, with the object of finding 
what is being done to Americanize 
the immigrant and then of outlining a 
practical and adequate program to meet 
this problem of fundamental importance. 
His address is 576 Fifth Avenue, New 
York City. 

1900 Dana R. Pond, a student here 
1987-98 in the second year class, has de- 
voted himself to art, and has made a rep- 
utation for himself as a portrait painter. 
The pictorial section of the New York 
Sunday Times recently presented a picture 
of him standing before an oil ])ortrait of 
Gen. Tasker H. Bliss of the U. S. Army 
and of the Peace Commission, painted by 
him in Paris. 



1901 Douglas P. Cook, Vice-president 
and General Manager of the Boston 
Pressed Metal Co., 171 Union Street, 
Worcester, has been re-elected President 
of the Pressed Metal Association of the 
United States. 

1902 Howard B. Josselyn, enrolled 
in the fall of 1900, is Assistant Treasurer 
of the C. E. Osgood Co., Hou.se Furnishers, 
744-756 Washington St., Boston, Mass. 
He has been with them twelve years. 

1902 William G. Riley, enrolled here 
1899-1900, is in the Weather Bureau 
Office, 17 Battery Place, New York City, 
his home add. being 2141 Leroy Place, 
Washington, D. C. 

1903 Harold C. Murdock was Chair- 
man of the Fourth Liberty Loan Com- 
mittee of Leicester, Mass. 

1904 Hazlett A. Delcher's address is 
2629 Fulton Street, Toledo, Ohio. 

1904 Tarrant Sibley, enrolled here 
Jan.-Dec. 1902, is president and general 
manager of the Edward L. Sible^y Manu- 
facturing Co. 

1905 Oscar R. Hutchin.son, enrolled 
here Sept. 1903- March, 1904, is a Capt., 
Co. G, Mass. State Guard. He is pro- 
prietor of a garage and machine shop at 
Lenox, Mass. 

1905 Lieut. John W. Mayhew, con- 
nected with the Standard Oil Co. in China, 
has been transferred from Hong Kong to 
Chief Accountant at Canton. 

1907 Leo A. Giard, enrolled here in 
the fall of 1904, represents the Goodyear 
Tire and Rubber Co. in Washington, D. C. 
His address is at 1016 14th St., N. Y. 

1907 Valentine and Raoul Mathey- 
Doret, enrolled here 1905-6 from Switzer- 
land, have written us recently. They are 
both married and live in Zurich, engaged 
in the importation of machine tools and 
automobiles from the United States. 

1907 Richard C. Niles, who was en- 
rolled here 1903-05, from Charlemont, 
Mass., is reported to us as having died 
many years ago of injuries received in a 
railroad accident. 



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1907 Richard W. Proctor, a student 
from Millbury in 1904-05, died Aug. 20, 
1916, in Millbury, Mass., his home. 

1908 Clifton H. Sugatt's address is 
changed to 54 .State .Street, Portland, Me. 




1909 James Herbert Pope died at the 
age of 26 years, Sept. 15, 1918, of pneu- 
monia following influenza. He was born 
in Dorchester, Mass. June 27, 1892, the 
son of S. A. Pope. He attended the pub- 
lic schools in Boston, and in the year 1904- 
05 attended the Wellesley School for Boys. 
In the fall of 1905 he entered Worcester 
Academ}', and after four years in regular 
course he was graduated in Jvmc, 1909. 
He then worked for some time for the Old 
Colony Trust Co. in Boston, and later 
spent two years on a flax ranch in Brooks, 
Alberta. On returning to Boston he was 
for a short time clerk with Fearing, Whi- 
ton, and Co., commission merchants, 655 
Atlantic Ave. From later in that year 
until the time of his death he was as- 
sistant manager for the Blue Hill Ice 
Company of Milton, Ma.ss. He was 
married June 2, 1917, to Dorothy G. Wil- 



son of Fitchburg, Mass. and took up his 
residence at 83 Blue Hills Parkway, Mil- 
ton, Mass. A son, James Herbert, was 
born Dec. 29, 1918, three months after 
the father's death. The accompanying 
photograph of James reminds us well of 
his haj^py and companionable tempera- 
ment. 

1909 H. Powell Spring has left the 
I'uiversity of Vermont, and after failing 
in his attempts to enter the army, has ac- 
cepted a position as lecturer in French, 
Trinity College, University of Toronto. 
He has a permanent New York City ad- 
dress at 255 West 108th Street. 

1910 John F. Dyer was married in 
Jan., 1918, to Miss Loretta F. Bormann of 
Irvington ,N. J. Their address recently 
was at 22 North 12th St., Newark, N. J., 
Dyer being emi)loyed in the Standard 
Aircraft Corporation at Elizabeth, an 
adjoining city. 

1910 Donald P. Frary was one of 
twenty chosen from 150 who have been 
working on the incjuiry bureau to go to 
Europe with the Peace Commission. He 
has been working in this service under 
Col. House since Aug. 1, his particular 
work being the keeping in close touch with 
ciuTcnt events in other countries. He 
sailed with the members of the Commis- 
sion on the George Washingion. 

1911 Dudley M. Bray, enrolled here 
1905-07 from Brookline, Mass., the 
younger brother of William Bray, '09, is 
with the American Smelting & Refining 
Co., Garfield, Utah. 

1911 Harold W. Buker, enrolled here 
1908-1909, has lieen for some time General 
Secretary of the Y. M. C. A. at Elizabeth 
City, N. C. He gave up this work on 
account of ill health and at present has 
charge of a farm in Hickory, Va. 

1911 Henry F. Drake has resigned his 
principalship at Claremont, N. H. His 
address is Mill Rift, Penn. 

1911 Carl C. Mullen enlisted in the 
Mass. State Guard, May 31, 1917, and has 
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Corp. to 1st Lieut. Is now in command of 
Co. G, 12th Regular Inf. 

1911 Lieut. Philip S. Smith was mar- 
ried Monday, Oct. 6, to Miss Marian 
Strout of Brunswick, Maine. 

1911 Chessel W. LTrmston is with the 
Urmston Grain Company, 626-627 Board 
of Trade BIdg., Indianapohs, Ind. He 
was married in 1912 and has two sons. 

1912 Stanley H. Lyons' address is 
220 Lexington Street, Providence, R. I. 

1912 Harold A. Maddox, enrolled 
here 1906-1909, has been in the mill at 
Linwood, Mass., since leaving the Acad- 
emy, and is now overseer of carding. He 
is a member of Co. L, 18th Mass. State 
Guards. 

1913 William R. Caldwell was mar- 
ried Sept. 4, 1918, to Miss Mary Jewell of 
Peterboro, N. H., a former classmate of 
his at the Peterboro High School. Cald- 
well has been since July at Camp Devens. 

1914 Irvine R. Ankeny, a student 
here from Seattle, Wash. 1909-12, has 
been a leader in the Red Cross and Liberty 
Bond drives in his city of Seattle. 

1914 Lieut. Raymond P. Bentley was 
married June 8, 1918, to Beatrice M. 
Floyd of Detroit, Michigan. 

1914 Alfred P. Berry, enrolled here 
1910-11, is a traveling salesman for the 
Gillette Safety Razor Co., and has charge 
of their business in nine southern states. 
Add., 720 Ponce de Leon Ave., Atlanta, 
Ga. 

1914 Warren D. Hayden, enrolled 
here Jan. 1911-June 1912, is with the 
Warren Leather Goods Co. of Worcester. 
He enlisted but was refused for physical 
reasons. Add., Holden, Mass. 

1914 Percy Simp.son Seccombe, en- 
rolled here 1911-12, was on the Lusitania 
with his older sister Elizabeth at the time 
she was sunk, and both were lost. He was 
born in England, March 4, 1895, his father 
being a former Cunard captain, but came 
to America while a young child, living at 
Peterboro, N. H. After his year at Wor- 



cester he had not attended school, but 
had been connected for a part of the time 
with the Stone & \\'ebster Co. of Boston, 
and had travelled much also. He was on 
his way, when lost, to enlist in the Eng- 
lish Army. 

1914 Howard L. Whitcomb is engaged 
to Miss Dorothy Tyler. 

1915 Sergt. Roland F. Becker's en- 
gagement is announced to Miss Christina, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick S. 
Clark, of 26 Stoneland Road, Worcester. 
Becker has been in France for several 
months with the American forces. The 
marriage will take place upon his return to 
this country. Before enlisting, Sergt. 
Becker was in the Auditing Dept. of 
Jones and Baker, Brokers and Bankers, 
N.Y.City. 

1915 Robert E. O'Hearn, enrolled 
here Sept. 1913-March, 1914, became 
affiliated with the Square D Co., manu- 
facturers of electrical safety devices of 
Detroit, Mich., and is at present office 
manager of its sales dept. His business 
address is 1400 Rivard St. 

1915 Webb C. Patterson is meter in- 
spector at Berlin, N. H., with the Twin 
States Gas and Electric Co. He was dis- 
qualified physically from carrying out his 
intention of getting into oversea service. 

1915 Howard E. Van Horn was mar- 
ried to Ruth Webster of Wellsboro, Pa., 
June 29, 1918. On account of physical 
disability he has not been accepted in the 
army, but the firm with which he is con- 
nected. The National Wire Wheel Com- 
pany, has been making parts for airplanes. 

1915 Joshua H. Weeks, Brown 1919, 
was Captain of the football team, and is 
President of the Senior Class and of the 
Cammarian Club. Will probably play 
first base this spring. Was a Corp. in the 
S. A. T. C. Was within two days of be- 
ing sent to an O. T. C. at Camp Zachary 
Taylor. Coll. Add., 81 Waterman Street, 
Providence, R. I. 

1915 Fred T. Youngs announces the 
birth of a daughter, Alma Kate Youngs, 
Nov. 30, 1918. 



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1916 Alvin E. Bliss, a student here 
1912-13, in the first year class, died Sept. 
12, 1916. The notice of his death comes 
from his motlier, Mrs. F. H. Bliss, 1841 
North Michigan Ave., Saginaw, Mich. 

1916 Leonard J, Raymond was mar- 
ried Oct. 19, at Westfield, Mass., to Ruth 
Adelia, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward 
O. Witman. The service was performed 
by the Rev. Robert K. Smith, '91. 

1916 E. Perry Rowell, Jr., has been in 
the Naval Res. at the M. I. T. Was on 
their track team. Has now resumed reg- 
ular work in n ival architecture and marine 
engineering, rooming at the Theta Delta 
Chi House, 334 Harvard St., Cambridge. 

1916 Keith C. Whyte has been in the 
S. A. T. C, Co. A, Missoula Mont. The 
company was demobilized, Dec. 18, 1918, 
and he has returned to Cornell. 

1917 George B. Searls is associate 
editor of "Camp and Campus," at Wil- 
liams. 

1918 Harold J. Foster died Sept. 26, 
1918, of pneumonia following influenza, in 
Perryville, Md. He was employed as 
timekeeper for the Fred T. Ley Co. on the 
great munition plant that was being 
erected there. He was in the last draft 
but not called. He was a student at 
Worcester Academy during the school 
year 1916-17, coming to us from Wil- 
braham Academy where he had been 
graduated after four years of study in the 
class of 1916. His work at Worcester was 
partly with the senior class and partly 
with the junior class. He was a member 
of the Legomathenian Society, and was 
prominent in cross country work and in 
basketball, winning his letter in both 
sports. He did not go to college. At his 
death he was twenty-one years of age, 
having been born July 16, 1897, the son of 
\\'illiam H. Foster of Wilbraham. Harold 
showed himself at Worcester, as elsewhere, 
an earnest, sincere, manly fellow. 

1918 Leonard F. Marshall is with his 
father in the manufacture of combs. 
Add., 91 Orchard St., Leominister, Mass. 



1919 George Niles Hayden died of 
jineumonia following influenza, Oct. 12, 
1918. He had enlisted but had not been 
called to camp, although he had hoped to 
go in October. He was born July 24,1897. 
He entered the Academy, Sept., 1914, in 
the preparatory class, and remained until 
March, 1917, his home being at 55 Lor- 
raine St., Hartford, Conn. He was verj^ 
much interested while here in wireless 
telegraphy. There are many of the 
present boys of tlie school who remember 
him well. 

1919 Henry Ittleson, Jr. has been at- 
tending the Clark School of Concentration 
at New York the past fall. 

1920 David D. Brockett, enrolled here 
1916-17, has been since leaving the Acad- 
emy in business with his father, Walter D. 
Brockett, manufacturer of native lumber 
and ship timber, 24 Foxon Street, New 
Haven, Conn. His work in getting out 
railroad ties is considered an essential 
occupation. 

Ex-faculty 

Herbert L. Osgood, LL.D., a teacher at 
Worcester Academy 1877-79, died Septem- 
ber 11, 1918. He had been on the faculty 
of Columbia University for many years. 
He was born at Canton, Me., in 1855, 
graduated from Amherst 1877, and came 
directly from there to Worcester Academy. 
After further study and teaching, includ- 
ing the earning of a Ph.D. from Columbia, 
he was called to that University in 1890, 
and since that time has held the professor- 
ship in x\merican History. He has been a 
frequent contributor to the Political 
Science Quarterly, has edited eight vol- 
umes on "The American Colonies in the 
Seventeenth Century", and had four addi- 
tional volumes almost ready for the press 
at the time of his death. He is survived 
by his wife, whom he met while teaching 
at Worcester, Caroline A. Symonds of the 
class of 1880, and by two sons and a 
daughter. 

Rev. Newton M. Simmonds, a teacher 
at the Academy 1890-91, is pastor of the 
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William B. Noyes, instructor of modern 
languages in 1898-99, is Principal of the 
High School at Stonington, Conn. On 
leaving the Academy in 1899 he became 
principal of the High School at Whitefield, 
N. H. Later he was for eight years 
secretary and treasurer of the Russell Car 
and Snow-plow Co., located in Ridgeway, 
Penn. Afterward he resumed teaching, 
being at Stratford, Conn., before taking 
three years ago his present position at 
Stonington. His son, born during his 
stay at Worcester, has been in military 
service. 

Alfred M. Dame is Assistant Principal 
and Instructor in Latin at the High School, 
Maiden, Mass. 

Henry E. Kimball was injured in 
the fall in an automobile collision, his 
collar bone being broken in such a place 
that it can never regain its full strength. 
He lives at North Worcester, and is in- 
terested in real estate and dairy farming. 
His daughter, Esther, is a senior at 
Wellesley. 

Mrs. Howard B. Gibbs died in Newton- 
ville, Mass., in February, 1918. Mr. 
Gibbs is Senior Master of the reorganized 
Allen School of Newton Center. 

George B. Gould is in the Depart- 
ment of Mathematics at the University 
School, Cleveland, Ohio. He was last 
summer a reader of the College Entrance 
Examination Board. 

Dr. Frederick D. Chej^dleur went in 
September to the headship of the Depart- 
ment of Romance Language at West 
Virginia ITniversity, Morgantown, W. Va. 
He had previously held an instructorship 
at Williams. 

The address of Mr. James C. Moore of 
the Science Department of the Bridgeport 
(Ct.) High School is 1884 North Ave., 
Bridgeport. 

A dauther was born to Mr. and Mrs. 
Raymond N. Cole December 30, 1919. 
Mr. Cole is living at 38 Oread St., Worces- 



ter and is Superintendent of the company 
that is manufacturing his patented 
graphite-metal bearings. 

Robert E. Beaton, now with Charles 
W. Wilder at the George H. Thurston 
School, Pittsburgh, Pa., wrote Noveml)er 
24, congratulating Mr. Hohnes upon his 
appointment to the acting principalship. 
He says, " I have a warm spot in my heart 
for the old school even though mj^ stay 
there was of short duration. " 

Elmer R. Bowker, instructor in Mathe- 
matics at the Academy 1916-17, is a 
Junior Master in the Boston Latin 
School. He lives at 73 Spring Park Lane, 
Jamaica Plain, Mass. 



ALUMNI WHO HAVE SENT 
BOYS TO W. A. 

A recent canvass of the pupils now in 
school shows that forty-four of the number 
were definitely influenced by old boys to 
come here. Below is a list of those who 
were thus shown to be responsible for the 
presence of Worcester pupils. 

H. D. Sleeper, '85 (son); S. S. Colvin, 
'87 (nephew); Dr. E. G. Dexter, '87; 
P. B. Morgan, '87 (two) ; Dr. G. G. Lewis, 
'88; A. Adams, '91; Rev. R. K. Smith, 
'91 ; G. E. Brest, '93 (son) ; J. A. Hamilton, 
'94 (son); R. E. Barker, '95 (son); Rev. 
J. L. Peacock, '97 (son); P. L. Walker, 
'04; F. W. Osborn, '06; C. M. Walcott, 
'10; E. B. Ackerman, '11 (brother); J. 
Oliver Johnstone, '12 (two); F. E. Star- 
rett, '12 (three biothers); J. E. Burns, 
'13; R. Batchelder, '14; F. H. Brackett, 
'14; Lt. C. D. Bourcier, '15; B.H.Bristol, 
2nd, '15; W. B. Schwinn, '15 (nephew); 
J. H. Weeks, '15 (two); C. A. Meyers, '16; 
G. S. Stone, '16; J. W. Zwinge, '16; H. A. 
Crane, '17; A. A. Gordon, 2nd, '18; J. 
Horowitz, '18 (brother); P. W. Meade, 
'18; J. de Noriega, '18; G. L. Sackett, '18; 
T. Subirana, '18 (two); F. H. Twombly, 
'18; J. Winslow, '18; L. H. Whitney, '18; 
R. H. Claggett, '20. 



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TOPICS OF THE YEAR 



THE FALL'S ATHLETICS 

At the opening of the iVcademj' in 
September, there were high hopes of a 
splendid season in the regular fall sports 
despite the dampening effects of the 
war and the entrance of many of the 
older boj^s into the Students' Army 
Training Corps connected with various 
colleges. Training began at once and 
schedules were arranged, but before any 
of the games could be played off, the 
influenza had made its appearance in 
all parts of Massachusetts. As a result 
of this epidemic, restrictions in travelling 
ordered by the State Board of Health 
upset the plans for interscholastic contests. 
The football schedule especially suffered. 
Games arranged with the Huntington 
School and the Harvard Freshmen had 
to be given up, and contests with neigh- 
boring schools were substituted. Not 
until the first of November did the plague 
abate sufficiently to allow the final 
games of the schedule to be played 
according to the original arrangements. 
The Academy was fortunate in having 
the same coaches as during last year with 
the exception of Mr. Charles Jones, 
who is now engaged in war work in 
France. Mr. Hazclton and Mr. Dele- 
hanty were in charge of football, Mr. 
Johnstone of cross country, and Mr. 
Beazley of soccer. 

A review of the season's sports follows : 

Football 

It was difficult for the fellows to keep 
up the daily grind of football practice 
on Gaskill Field for a month with no 
interscholastic contest to test their 
progress. The first game took place 
on October 19 against South High of 
Worcester. Springfield Y. M. C. A. 
College and Andover defeated the Acad- 
emy, but these losses were forgotten in 
the final game of the season, the victory 



over Williston. Great credit is due to 
Captain H. Cousens, S. A. Vose, and 
L. Sullivan for their work during the 
season. Not only were these three plaj^- 
ers responsible for much of the success of 
the team, but they played with such 
sportsmanship that it would be hard to 
find a team with a cleaner record in this 
respect in the history of the school. 

The following players received the 
"W": Milton E. Carroll, '19, New Bed- 
ford; Edwin A. Cole, Jr., '19, Housa- 
tonic; Harold F. Cousens, (Capt.) '21, 
Arlington; George A. Crawley, '21, Hart- 
ford, Ct.; Harlan Feuille, '19, Panama; 
William F. Hight, '22, Bangor, Me.; 
George R. Johnson (Mgr.), '19, Hart- 
ford, Ct.; Ebenezer B. King, '20, Pea- 
body; John H. Lee, 2nd, '20, Brighton; 
Bernhard Simmons, '20, Worcester; Law- 
rence J. Sullivan, '20, New Bedford; Gor- 
don S. Swift, '21, New Haven, Ct.; 
Latham C. Strong, '21, Haverhill; James 
E. Turner, '20, Smyrna, Del.; Stanley 
A. Vose, '21, Cumberland Hill, R. I.; 
Charles C. Wotton, '21, Rockland, Me. 

The following games were played : 

W.A. 0pp. 
Oct. 19 Worcester S. H. S. home 53 
Oct. 26 Springfield Y.M.C.A. 

Coll. home 14 

Nov. 2 Andover away 24 

Nov. 6 Wor. Trade School home 56 
Nov. 9 Gushing away 21 

Nov. 16 Williston home 27 14 

Soccer 

During the first month of the fall term 
about twenty fellows answered the call 
of Capt. Hecht as candidates for the 
soccer team. Because of the absence of 
Mr. Jones, Mr. Beazley took charge of the 
coaching, assisted occasionally by Mr. 
Delahanty. The first two soccer games 
were defeats for the Academy, but at the 
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structiou in team work began to appear. 
Andover and Williston were both de- 
feated, and by this latter victory the 
Academy won the New England pre- 
paratory school championship in soccer. 
Captain Hecht, Ferd. de la Macorra, 
and R. Sullivan did great work for 
Worcester throughout the season. 
The following games were played : 

W.A. 0pp. 
Oct. 20 Chinese Students 

of Boston here 1 2 

Nov. 2 Holyoke High away 2 3 

Nov. 9 Andover away 2 1 

Nov. 16 Springfield Y.M.C.A. 

Coll. here 5 

Nov. 20 Wilbraham away 3 1 

The letters in soccer were awarded to. 
Herbert H. Cooper, '22, Detroit, Mich.; 
Wyman F. Coudray, '19, Wethersfield, 
Ct.; Rodman O. Hazard, '22, Fairhaven, 
Vt.; Joseph de Martino, '20, Mexico 
City; Ferd. de la Macorra, '20, Mexico 
City; Octavio Hecht, (Capt.) '20, Gua- 
temala; William O. Mannion, '21, Fall 
River; Walter B. Murdoch, '19, Paia, 
T. H.; Gordon H. Smith, '19, Brookline; 
Robert V. Sullivan, '21, New Bedford; 
Lee F. Powers, '20, Allston; Ralph 
Spaulding, '20, Ardmore, Pa.; Silas E. 
Hamilton (Mgr.,), '19, Dummerston, Vt. 

Cross Country 
The season in cross country was con- 
fined wholly to contests between the dif- 
ferent classes of the school. Had the 
meets arranged for been run, it is prob- 
able that the Academy would have won 
distinction against Wakefield High, Wil- 
braham, Andover, and Williston. None 
of these meets took place, and the fellows 
had to content themselves with the an- 
nual cross country run, held Saturday, 
November 23. The first ten to finish 
were given class numerals. These were, 
in order: Hazard, '22, Ferd. de la Macorra, 
'20, W^etherbee, '22, Zegri, '20, Persons, 
'21, Armengol, '22, I. de Martino, '21, 
Roig, '20, Fran, de la Macorra, '21, 
Fraser, '20. 



The account of this fall's athletics 
would not be complete without some 
reference to the trip made by Mr. Hazel- 
ton to Annapolis, where he saw the foot- 
ball game between the Navy and the 
Great Lakes Training School. It was in 
recognition of Mr. Hazelton's splendid 
work for the school during a season 
filled with anxiety and disappointment, 
and marred by cancelled games and sick 
players, that the student body and 
faculty sent him to .Annapolis. W.H.F. 

NOTES 

The first intersociety debate of the year 
was held February 8, between Lego and 
Agora. The question w^as, "Resolved, 
that the California Anti- Alien Land Legis- 
lation is LTnjustifiable. " Lego had the 
affirmative, its speakers being Miles C. 
Webb, '20, and Silas E. Hamilton, '19; 
Agora the negative, with Robert Patter- 
son, '20, and Anson Barker, '20, as 
speakers. Lego won. This was the first 
debate of the series for the new cup offered 
by Mr. George A. Gaskill, '94. The 
second debate is to be March 22, between 
Sigma and Agora on "The Psychological 
test for Admission to College Proj^osed 
Recently by Columbia. " 

Whiter Basketball scores: Jan. 11, 
W. A. 19, Winthrop High, 6. Jan. IS, 
W. A., 36, Athol Y. M. C. A., 8. Jan. 25, 
W. A., 20, Gushing, 17. Feb. 1, W. A., 
32, Wilbraham, 14. Feb. 8, W. A., 34, 
Loomis Inst., 32. Feb. 19, W. A., 25, 
Gushing, 13. Mar. 1, W\ A., 31, Wilbra- 
ham, 3. Mar. 8, W. A., 31, Williston, 14. 
On Mar. 15 we play Andover. 

Winter swimming scores: Jan. 18, 
W. A., 35, Brookline Swimming Club, 18. 
Jan. 25, W. A., 40, Boston English High, 
11. Feb. 1, W. A., 40, Springfield 
Y. M. C. A. College, 15. Feb. 8, W. A., 
44, Huntington, 7. Feb. 15, Y'ale Fresh- 
men, 30, W. A., 23. Feb. 21, W. A., 35, 
M. I. T. Freshmen, 17. Mar. 1, W. A., 41 
Brookline High, 12. Mar. 8, W. A., 32}i, 
Andover, 20}/2. The season is completed. 



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